I am in the proof-of-concept phase of building a large ZFS/Solaris based SAN
box, and am experiencing absolutely poor / unusable performance.
Where to begin...
The Hardware setup:
Supermicro 4U 24 Drive Bay Chassis
Supermicro X8DT3 Server Motherboard
2x Xeon E5520 Nehalem 2.26 Quad Core CPUs
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Some more back story. I initially started with Solaris 10 u8, and was getting
40ish MB/s reads, and 65-70MB/s writes, which was still a far cry from the
performance I was getting with OpenFiler. I decided to try Opensolaris
2009.06, thinking that since it was more "state of the art & up to dat
