Saso is correct - ESX/i always uses F_SYNC for all writes and that is for sure your performance killer. Do a snoop | grep sync and you'll see the sync write calls from VMWare. We use DDRdrives in our production VMWare storage and they are excellent for solving this problem. Our cluster supports 50,000 users and we've had no issues at all. Do not use an SSD for the ZIL - as soon as it fills up you will be very unhappy. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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