> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Will Murnane [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Bereitgestellt: Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2009 15:29
> Bereitgestellt in: [email protected]
> Unterhaltung: [storage-discuss] iscsi target / HBA support
> Betreff: Re: [storage-discuss] iscsi target / HBA support
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:05,  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1) Does anybody have a similar configuration running? Are 
> there some 
> > special configuration "tricks", i.e. jumbo frames (how to 
> setup on the 
> > solaris, cisco and ESX/HBA side).
> Have you disabled Nagle's algorithm?  This can lead to 
> significant performance improvements with iSCSI.  What 
> storage is backing your targets (e.g., a zpool made of one 
> disk?  a dozen disks?  7k disks or 15k?)? What hardware is 
> running Solaris?  What does local disk performance look like 
> according to bonnie++ (or something similar)?
Nagle's algorithm? Never heard about :-) I'll ask Google
The storage is running on a dual socket Opteron Board (tyan S3992) with one 
dualcore cpu 2200MHz & 4GB RAM.
There are 8 SATAII Disks 1.5TB each, connected on an ARECA 1231 (ARC-1231ML). 
The controller is presenting one device RAID6) to solaris. 
On the solaris side I have created one storage pool (8.12TB). Theses storage 
pool covers 23 filesystems used by CIFS shares & 9 Volumes for ICSSI (two for 
the ESX system disks & 7 for virtual machine containers).
I know SATA could be a limitation, but 1) CIFS is quite fast and 2) my old 
solution had SATAI disks and was faster. So I assume, the disk speed should not 
be the limitation.
> 
> > 2) How can I measure the perfomance of such a configuration in a 
> > objective, comparable way?
> Run your expected workload against it.  Anything else is 
> mostly for brag rights; it doesn't matter if you can read 
> really fast sequentially if your application doesn't do that.
He he, what I thought...

Robert
> 
> Will
> 
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