[zfs-discuss] ZFS performance on LSI 9240-8i?

2012-05-04 Thread Roman Matiyenko
Hi all, I have a bad bad problem with our brand new server! The lengthy details are below but to cut the story short, on the same hardware (3 x LSI 9240-8i, 20 x 3TB 6gb HDDs) I am getting ZFS sequential writes of 1.4GB/s on Solaris 10 (20 disks, 10 mirrors) and only 200-240MB/s on latest Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance on LSI 9240-8i?

2012-05-09 Thread Roman Matiyenko
Thanks for the tips, everybody! Progress report: OpenIndiana failed to recognise LSI 9240-8i's. I installed 4.7 drivers from LSI website ("for Solaris 11 and up") but it started throwing "component failed" messages. So I gave up on 9240's and re-flashed them into 9211-8i's ("IT mode"). Solaris 11

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance on LSI 9240-8i?

2012-05-09 Thread Roman Matiyenko
I followed this guide but instead of 2108it.bin I downloaded the latest firmware file for 9211-8i from LSI web site. I now have three 9211's! :) http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg124393#msg124393 On 4 May 2012 18:33, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2012, Rocky

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance on LSI 9240-8i?

2012-05-09 Thread Roman Matiyenko
13 > > best regards > daniel > > > > Roman Matiyenko writes: > >> Thanks! >> >> LSI 9211-8i are not recognised by lsiutil. I run this S11 under VMware >> ESXi with the three PCI devices in pass-through mode. The main >> (virtual) disk controlle