Just a gentle reminder: please always be respectful. People might have reason you didn't think of, or might simply make a mistake. Not a good reason to be respectful. This list is supposed to be a place for open communication and help between users.
Thank you. Kind regards. -- Enrico Tagliavini Systems / Software Engineer [email protected] Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Informatics Maulbeerstrasse 66 4058 Basel Switzerland On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 18:03 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > On 05/06/2023 17:41, Alec wrote: > > > > Many network storage engineers simply don't understand bandwidth (or the > > importance of port groups)... With an ESS you are talking GIGA*BYTES* > > per second and storage and networking architects simply see 10Gbe and > > assume that's good enough. A 10Gbe connection can do about 1.4GB/s.. > > 100Gbe can do 12.5GB/s. To the wrong engineer you can explain this > > until you're blue in the face and they won't get it. You need to divide > > Gbe by 8 to get about the GB/s throughput. Explain to them that a USB-C > > interface is capable of 10Gbe... So you're throttling millions of > > dollars in technology to the speed of a consumer grade USB-C interface. > > When infact an ESS can drive at least 2x100Gbe to saturation. > > > > I don't have an ESS but a classic SAN array and Spectrum Scale and I can > > saturate 32*8Gbe fiber connections. > > > > Your kidding right? That's basic competency for the job!!! > > > JAB. > _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org
