On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 09:46, gm_sjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's great Ben, extremely useful stuff. Right now i'm considering > using a HP Netserver E800, with two 733mhz P3 CPU's. It has two 64-bit > PCI-X slots, so I am contemplating the SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 8-port > controllers, as they appear to be well-supported in Solaris (same > chipset as the Thumper, perhaps?). It is the same chipset, as a matter of fact. This setup will work, but it's not ideal because of one problem---the CPUs aren't 64-bit, so ZFS will not perform as well as it could. I had a very similar setup for a year or two---two 933 mHz P3's, two gigabytes of memory, the AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller, and a couple of disks---and replacing the motherboard with a cheap Core 2 one significantly *improved* performance, despite limiting the controller to vanilla-PCI speeds. CPU usage wasn't really an issue, but speeds were nevertheless limited to 20 MB/s or so locally. With the new motherboard I get about 70 MB/s over network, mostly disk-limited.
> as a single raidZ2 pool, presenting itself via iSCSI (and eventually > NFS). You'll have to present part of the volume via iSCSI and part via NFS; they can't overlap. Also, you must define how large an iSCSI volume you want up front. Although you can resize it later, this will entail resizing the filesystem over network to allow the remote machine to use all the new space. > Out of interest, does anyone know if it is possible to configure iSCSI > to only use one particular NIC? I want to use one NIC for iSCSI (for > my storage vlan) and the other for management and NAS (NFS) type > duties. If you assign an IP address to a single NIC, then all traffic will flow over that interface. Trunking Intel interfaces is also possible, but if you don't want that to happen it won't by default. Will _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
