I confirm that form the fileserver point of view and storage, i had more network connections used.
Bruno On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:00:21 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:14:10AM +0000, Bruno Sousa wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Let me tell you all that the MC/S *does* make a difference...I had a >> windows fileserver using an ISCSI connection to a host running snv_134 >> with an average speed of 20-35 mb/s...After the upgrade to snv_151a >> (Solaris 11 express) this same fileserver got a performance boost and >> now >> has an average speed of 55-60mb/s. >> >> Not double performance, but WAY better , specially if we consider that >> this performance boost was purely software based :) >> > > Did you verify you're using more connections after the update? > Or was is just *other* COMSTAR (and/or kernel) updates making the > difference.. > > -- Pasi > > >> >> >> Nice...nice job COMSTAR guys! >> >> >> >> Bruno >> >> >> >> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:49:59 -0500, Jim Dunham >> <james.dun...@oracle.com> >> wrote: >> >> On Nov 16, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> >> On Nov 16, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Tim Cook <[1]...@cook.ms> wrote: >> >> AFAIK, esx/i doesn't support L4 hash, so that's a non-starter. >> >> For iSCSI one just needs to have a second (third or fourth...) >> iSCSI >> session on a different IP to the target and run mpio/mpxio/mpath >> whatever your OS calls multi-pathing. >> >> MC/S (Multiple Connections per Sessions) support was added to the >> iSCSI >> Target in COMSTAR, now available in Oracle Solaris 11 Express. >> - Jim >> >> -Ross >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> [2]zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by [3]MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> >> >> -- >> Bruno Sousa >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by [4]MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> References >> >> Visible links >> 1. mailto:t...@cook.ms >> 2. mailto:zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> 3. http://www.mailscanner.info/ >> 4. http://www.mailscanner.info/ > >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Bruno Sousa -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
