Hi everyone,
I recently finished doing a hardware-refresh of our master/media server.
The main reason for the refresh was that our previous server was really
old (with 1Gbps HBAs) and we wanted to start doing VMware backups thru
the SAN (thru our 8Gbps SAN fabric). I just finished doing some
Hi,
Don't forget about:
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_RESTORE
Justin.
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
Hi everyone,
I recently finished doing a hardware-refresh of our master/media server.
The main reason for the refresh was that our previous server was really
old (with 1Gbps HBAs) and we
On 03/06/2011 03:13 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Don't forget about:
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_RESTORE
Hello Justin,
I just did a restore now using 1024 as the value for NUMBER_DATA_BUFFER
and never specified NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_RESTORE. However, on the
restore details I see:
Info bptm(pid=5224)
I would be careful with your testing strategy. When performing this type of
test you need to avoid buffer bias. This is where on subsequent runs data is
being read from memory / fs buffers versus from disk and this is attributing to
the performance gains.
Regards
Peter Marelas
-Original
Hi!
Looking for recommendations on what block size I should use on my disk volumes
behind a NBU media server dedup pool...in addition to the block/frag size I
should set in the pd.conf file.
Anyone had direct experience with this and if so any recommendations? Hoping to
achieve the best
