Hello, We would like more access to the back end of the NAS as well. We bought 2 7110s on the basis of thier performance was very poor only to find as soon as you attempt lots of small file actions e.g. we need to copy a Oracle eBusiness suite code set of 500,000 very small files very quickly.
Copyng large files resulted in excellent performance but lots of small files resulted in very poor performance. Our Sun client manager investigated but believes the performance we were getting was actually slightly better than on his interal test systems. Large files => 1Gb per sec ish Small files => 1.5Mb per sec ish. We tested lots of different NFS mount options and different NAS raid configurations but performance as always bad. Doing the same copy on a SAN took a few minutes. We therefore need a way to bypass the NFS protocol for this copy, NDMP was just as slow in tests, SFTP only works for single files. This leaves us with the option of Telnet + SSL with the mget command but we havent been able to get this to work so far. Will this NAS ever support scp or rsync? This would solve our problems, or access to the shell without invalidating our warrenty so we could create an OS level pipe and get a single file using sftp would also work. As it is we are wishing we have bought a T5220 and put disks in it so we would have had the option for fast local access for backup and cloning. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
