I'm using an x4500 as a large data store for our VMware environment. I
have mirrored the first 2 disks, and created a ZFS pool of the other 46:
22 pairs of mirrors, and 2 spares (optimizing for random I/O performance
rather than space). Datasets are shared to the VMware ESX servers via
NFS. We
Heh, interesting to see somebody else using the sheer number of disks in the
Thumper to their advantage :)
Have you thought of solid state cache for the ZIL? There's a 16GB battery
backed PCI card out there, I don't know how much it costs, but the blog where I
saw it mentioned a 20x
Have you thought of solid state cache for the ZIL? There's a
16GB battery backed PCI card out there, I don't know how much
it costs, but the blog where I saw it mentioned a 20x
improvement in performance for small random writes.
Thought about it, looked in the Sun Store, couldn't find
