Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone could comment on the best CPU/Chipset
architecture (Intel E56xx/X56xx vs AMD 61xx) for high performance
ZFS/Nexenta based storage servers.
There will be two clustered storage heads, with dual 10GigE adapters
attached to multiple SAS 6Gbps disk shelves with 20-80 15k RPM SAS
disks, plus multiple ZeusRAM drives as ZIL devices, with the potential
for whole disk shelves of L2ARC cache.
The storage would be a backend to Oracle 10g boxes running intensive
batch jobs from high end Intel kit (32+ cores), so performance is critical.
For something like this I'm guessing 96GB+ of RAM per head is going to
be needed, and I'm trying to figure out whether 2 CPU sockets is enough,
or whether 4 sockets would be beneficial.
I'm trying to price this up as an alternative to a typical
NetApp/EMC/Hitachi style solution, and would be interested to hear if
anyone has had similar successes displacing proprietary vendor solutions
with this type of thing.
Cheers,
Alasdair
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