With XenServer 4 and NFS you had to "grow" the disks (modified manually from
thin to fat) in order to get decent performance.


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:06 AM, lawrence ho <no-re...@opensolaris.org>wrote:

> We have a 7110 on try and buy program.
>
> We tried using the 7110 with XEN Server 5 over iSCSI and NFS. Nothing seems
> to solve the slow write problem. Within the VM, we observed around 8MB/s on
> writes. Read performance is fantastic. Some troubleshooting was done with
> local SUN rep. The conclusion is that 7110 does not have write cache in
> forms of SSD or controller DRAM write cache. The solution from SUN is to buy
> StorageTek or 7000 series model with SSD write cache.
>
> Adam, please advise if there any fixes for 7110. I am still shopping for
> SAN and would rather buy a 7100 than a StorageTek or something else.
>
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