Rocky,
Does DataON manufacture these units or they LSI OEM?
-marc
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On 2011-01-25, at 2:53 PM, Rocky Shek roc...@dataonstorage.com wrote:
Philip,
You can consider DataON DNS-1600 4U 24Bay 6Gb/s SAS JBOD Storage.
That's a great deck, Chris.
-marc
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On 2010-11-27, at 10:34 AM, Christopher George cgeo...@ddrdrive.com wrote:
I haven't had a chance to test a Vertex 2 PRO against my 2 EX, and I'd
be interested if anyone else has.
I recently presented at the OpenStorage Summit 2010
Nice write-up, Marc.
Aren't the SuperMicro cards their funny UIO form factor? Wouldn't want
someone buying a card that won't work in a standard chassis.
-marc
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Marc Bevand m.bev...@gmail.com wrote:
The LSI SAS1064E slipped through the cracks when I built the
Hi Michael,
What makes you think striping the SSDs would be faster than round-robin?
-marc
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Michael Sullivan michael.p.sulli...@mac.com
wrote:
Everyone,
Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.
Well, I actually walked through the source code with an
The L2ARC will continue to function.
-marc
On 5/4/10, Michael Sullivan michael.p.sulli...@mac.com wrote:
HI,
I have a question I cannot seem to find an answer to.
I know I can set up a stripe of L2ARC SSD's with say, 4 SSD's.
I know if I set up ZIL on SSD and the SSD goes bad, the the ZIL
Richard,
My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built
their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of
product - petty sure that eclipses all (Open)Solaris-based storage ;)
-marc
On 3/26/10, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 26,
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Chris Murray chrismurra...@gmail.comwrote:
Good evening,
I understand that NTFS VMDK do not relate to Solaris or ZFS, but I was
wondering if anyone has any experience of checking the alignment of data
blocks through that stack?
NetApp has a great little
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Svein Skogen sv...@stillbilde.net wrote:
Not quite a one liner. After you create the target once (step 3), you do
not have to do that again for the next volume. So three lines.
So ... no way around messing with guid numbers?
I'll write you a Perl script
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Svein Skogen sv...@stillbilde.net wrote:
I'll write you a Perl script :)
I think there are ... several people that'd like a script that gave us
back some of the ease of the old shareiscsi one-off, instead of having
to spend time on copy-and-pasting GUIDs
Given that quote a few folk ask which is the best SSD?, I thought some
folk might find the following interesting:
http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/flash/dramexchange-intel-ssds
-marc
P.S: Apologies if the slightly off-topic post offends anyone.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote:
snip
The drives I'm considering are:
OCZ Vertex 30GB
Intel X25V 40GB
Crucial CT64M225 64GB
Personally, I'd go with the Intel product...but save a few more pennies up
and get the X-25M. The extra boost on read and write
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Lutz Schumann
presa...@storageconcepts.dewrote:
Now If a virtual machine writes to the zvol, blocks are allocated on disk.
Reads are now partial from disk (for all blocks written) and from ZFS layer
(all unwritten blocks).
If the virtual machine (which may
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Troy Campbell troy.campb...@fedex.comwrote:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/community/sun-oracle-community-continuity.html
Half way down it says:
Will Oracle support Java and OpenSolaris User Groups, as Sun has?
Yes, Oracle will indeed enthusiastically
Isn't the dedupe bug fixed in svn133?
-marc
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Jeffry Molanus jeffry.mola...@proact.nlwrote:
There is no clustering package for it and available source seems very old
also the de-dup bug is there iirc. So if you don't need HA cluster and
dedup..
BR, Jeffry
send and receive?!
-marc
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Thomas Burgess wonsl...@gmail.com wrote:
When i needed to do this, the only way i could get it to work was to do
this:
Take some disks, use a Opensolaris Live CD and label them EFI
Create a ZPOOL in FreeBSD with these disks
copy my
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Matt registrat...@flash.shanje.comwrote:
Here's IOStat while doing writes :
r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device
1.0 256.93.0 2242.9 0.3 0.11.30.5 11 12 c0t0d0
0.0 253.90.0 2242.9 0.3 0.11.0
Run Bonnie++. You can install it with the Sun package manger and it'll
appear under /usr/benchmarks/bonnie++
Look for the command line I posted a couple of days back for a decent set of
flags to truly rate performance (using sync writes).
-marc
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Matt
Anyone else got stats to share?
Note: the below is 4*Caviar Black 500GB drives, 1*Intel x-25m setup as both
ZIL and L2ARC, decent ASUS mobo, 2GB of fast RAM.
-marc
r...@opensolaris130:/tank/myfs# /usr/benchmarks/bonnie++/bonnie++ -u root -d
/tank/myfs -f -b
Using uid:0, gid:0.
Writing
Definitely use Comstar as Tim says.
At home I'm using 4*WD Caviar Blacks on an AMD Phenom x4 @ 1.Ghz and
only 2GB of RAM. I'm running svn132. No HBA - onboard SB700 SATA
ports.$
I can, with IOmeter, saturate GigE from my WinXP laptop via iSCSI.
Can you toss the RAID controller aside an use
How does lowering the flush interval help? If he can't ingress data
fast enough, faster flushing is a Bad Thibg(tm).
-marc
On 2/10/10, Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjeti...@linpro.no wrote:
Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us writes:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Frank Cusack wrote:
The other three
:12 PM, Marc Nicholas geekyth...@gmail.com wrote:
How does lowering the flush interval help? If he can't ingress data
fast enough, faster flushing is a Bad Thibg(tm).
-marc
On 2/10/10, Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjeti...@linpro.no wrote:
Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us writes:
On Wed
I think you'll do just fine then. And I think the extra platter will
work to your advantage.
-marc
On 2/3/10, Simon Breden sbre...@gmail.com wrote:
Probably 6 in a RAID-Z2 vdev.
Cheers,
Simon
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I would go with cores (threads) rather than clock speed here. My home system
is a 4-core AMD @ 1.8Ghz and performs well.
I wouldn't use drives that big and you should be aware of the overheads of
RaidZ[x].
-marc
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Brian broco...@vt.edu wrote:
I am Starting to
Very interesting stats -- thanks for taking the time and trouble to share
them!
One thing I found interesting is that the Gen 2 X25-M has higher write IOPS
than the X25-E according to Intel's documentation (6,600 IOPS for 4K writes
versus 3,300 IOPS for 4K writes on the E). I wonder if it'd
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Brian broco...@vt.edu wrote:
It sounds like the consensus is more cores over clock speed. Surprising to
me since the difference in clocks speed was over 1Ghz. So, I will go with a
quad core.
Four cores @ 1.8Ghz = 7.2Ghz of threaded performance ([Open]Solaris
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Marc Nicholas wrote:
Very interesting stats -- thanks for taking the time and trouble to share
them!
One thing I found interesting is that the Gen 2 X25-M has higher write
IOPS than
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Marc Nicholas wrote:
The write IOPS between the X25-M and the X25-E are different since with
the X25-M, much
more of your data gets completely lost. Most of us prefer not to lose our
As I previously mentioned, I'm pretty happy with the 500GB Caviar
Blacks that I have :)
One word of caution: failure and rebuild times with 1TB+ drives can be
a concern. How many spindles were you planning?
-marc
On 2/3/10, Simon Breden sbre...@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds good.
I was taking a
I agree wholeheartedlyyou're paying to make the problem go away in an
expedient manner. That said, I see how much we spend on NetApp storage at
work and it makes me shudder ;)
I think someone was wondering if the large storage vendors have their own
microcode on drives? I can tell you that
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Simon Breden sbre...@gmail.com wrote:
Which consumer-priced 1.5TB drives do people currently recommend?
I happened to be looking at the Hitachi product information, and
noticed that the
I'm running the 500GB models myself, but I wouldn't say they're overly
noisyand I've been doing ZFS/iSCSI/IOMeter/Bonnie++ stress testing with
them.
They whine rather than click FYI.
-marc
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Simon Breden sbre...@gmail.com wrote:
IIRC the Black range are meant
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Frank Cusack
frank+lists/z...@linetwo.netwrote:
That said, I doubt 2TB drives represent good value for a home user.
They WILL fail more frequently and as a home user you aren't likely
to be keeping multiple spares on hand to avoid warranty replacement
time.
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