I just picked up an old A5000 for the sole purpose of improving my vxvm
skills - I have some Sun Ultra2s that I could use to connect to the array.
After a bit of research it appears that the Sun 501-5266 X6730A sbus card
(with gbics) is what I need for the Ultra2.
Can anyone verify that the 501-5
The test you show isn't good enough because it doesn't compare
multi-node access performance with and without CFS.
In the past (far enough in the past that I don't think it should still
be an issue), we frequently saw disk arrays that performed just
terribly if two hosts did I/O to them in the wro
If it is the same file -
Versions 4.0 and higher handoff regions of a file to different hosts to
reduce lock contention. Depends on the file size and whether the hosts
are accessing the same region of the file as to whether this would help
(also depends what version you're running - if >4, you've
