We are using zfs backed fibre targets for ESXi 4.1 and previously 4.0 and have had good performance with no issues. The fibre LUNS were formated with vmfs by the ESXi boxes.
SQLIO benchmarks from guest system running on fibre attacted ESXi host. File Size MB Threads Read/Write Duration Sector Size KB Pattern IOs oustanding IO/Sec MB/Sec Lat. Min. Lat. Ave. Lat. Max. 24576 8 R 30 8 random 64 37645 294 0 1 141 24576 8 W 30 8 random 64 17304 135 0 3 303 24576 8 R 30 64 random 64 6250 391 1 9 176 24576 8 W 30 64 random 64 5742 359 1 10 203 The array is a raidz2 with 14 x 256 gb Patriot Torqx drives and a cache with 4 x 32 gb intel 32 GB G1s When I get around to doing the next series of boxes I'll probably use c300s in place of the indellix based drives. iSCSI was disappointing and seemed to be CPU bound. Possibly by a stupid amount of interupts coming from the less than stellar nic on the test box. NFS we have only used as an ISO store, but it has worked ok and without issues. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
