You have some mighty pools there. Something I find quite interesting is that those who have "mighty pools" generally obtain about the same data rate regardless of their relative degree of excessive "might". This causes me to believe that the Solaris kernel is throttling the read rate so that throwing more and faster hardware at the problem does not help.
Are you saying the X4500s we have are set up incorrectly, or done in a way which will make them run poorly?
The servers came with no documentation nor advise. I have yet to find a good place that suggest configurations for dedicated x4500 NFS servers. We had to find out about the NFSD_SERVERS when the first trouble came in. (Followed by 5 other tweaks and limits-reached troubles).
If Sun really wants to compete with NetApp, you'd think they would ship us hardware configured for NFS servers, not x4500s configured for desktops :( They are cheap though! Nothing like being Wall-Mart of Storage!
That is how the pools were created as well. Admittedly it may be down to our Vendor again.
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