[zfs-discuss] Good benchmarking software?

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I've been doing some testing on a test box to try to generate good performance reports. I've been trying bonnie++ and iozone, and while both give me lots and lots of statistics and numbers, I can't find a good way to visualize them. I see there are some spreadsheets avaliable for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good benchmarking software?

2011-03-22 Thread Christian Meier
Hello Roy, depending on the data you have you could use gnuplot to visualize. Normally an X for time and Y for the data show enough. I did this once with CPU and Memory usage. RRD is also a nice Tool to visualize (most OpenSource Tools use it) but for me gnuplot was the easier way to do it. If you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good benchmarking software?

2011-03-22 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
depending on the data you have you could use gnuplot to visualize. Normally an X for time and Y for the data show enough. I did this once with CPU and Memory usage. RRD is also a nice Tool to visualize (most OpenSource Tools use it) but for me gnuplot was the easier way to do it. If you like

[zfs-discuss] rpool to use emcpower device

2011-03-22 Thread Leandro Vanden Bosch
I decided to post this question to the mailing list because it needs ZFS knowledge to be solved. The situation is like this: I have a blade server that boots from a LUN, which has no additional storage or internal disk but that LUN used to boot. MPxIO works perfectly; but the management wants

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-22 Thread Jeff Bacon
I've also started conversations with Pogo about offering an OpenIndiana based workstation, which might be another option if you prefer more of a general purpose solution. - Garrett Just to highlight a point that seems often lost here - not everyone uses Solaris/ZFS as a file storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-22 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Jeff Bacon ba...@walleyesoftware.com wrote: I've also started conversations with Pogo about offering an OpenIndiana based workstation, which might be another option if you prefer more of Sometimes I'm left wondering if anyone uses the non-Oracle versions for

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-22 Thread David Magda
On Mar 22, 2011, at 21:09, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Seeing that userland programs for *Solaris and derivatives (GUI, daemons, tools, etc) is usually late compared to bleeding-edge Linux distros (e.g. Ubuntu), with no particular dedicated team working on improvement there, I'm guessing the