I had posted at the Sun forums, but it was recommended to me to try here as well. For reference, please see http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5351916&tstart=0.
In the process of a large SAN migration project we are moving many large volumes from the old SAN to the new. We are making use of the 'replace' function to replace the old volumes with similar or larger new volumes. This process is moving very slowly, sometimes as slow as only moving one percentage of data every 10 minutes. Is there any way to streamline this method? The system is Solaris 10 08/07. How much is dependent on the activity of the box? How about on the architecture of the box? The primary system in question at this point is a T2000 with 8GB of RAM and a 4-core CPU. This server has 6 4Gb fibre channel connections to our SAN environment. At times this server is quite busy because it is our backup server, but performance seems no better when backup operations have ceased their daily activities. Our pools are only stripes. Would we expect better performance from a mirror or raidz pool? It is worrisome that if the environment were compromised by a failed disk that it could take so long to replace and correct the usual redundancies (if it was a mirror or raidz pool). I have previously applied the kernel change described here: http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/?itemid=52 I just moved a 1TB volume which took approx. 27h. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
