I have recently accepted a job that has a development lab with a lot of Sun equipment, fiber infrastructure, and more. Consequently I have worked with neither very much before. Over the last few weeks I have been trying to find the right answer for this situation:
What do you do with several X4540's, several X4270 M2's, a weak copper network (1Gb), Fiber Channel HBAs in everything (but not connected to anything), unused fiber switches, and a huge demand for fast data storage? There is no room for port bonding due to lack of interfaces on our ethernet switches so obviously something has to be done with this fiber infrastructure that is completely unused (dont ask i have no idea). Clearly I have much storage available on top of these Sun servers that get to enjoy the greatness of ZFS, but if all I got to serve the data is a single 1 Gb ethernet port- I feel nauseous. I have all my ZFS platforms capable of writing at over 1 GBps, but I can't even wake them up with 1 Gb of network i/o. I want to utilize this fiber infrastructure. The only thing I have found thus far is the COMMSTAR project. UNFORTUNATELY: This particular organization will NOT budge on moving away from Solaris 10. So I cannot run OpenSolaris. Anyone have ideas or suggestions? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
