On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Joseph Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Thanks Tim, > At this moment, I am looking into OpenStorage as NAS (file serving) vs. > Linux NAS (Samba) vs. Win2008 NAS vs. NetApp (ONTAP, not GX) performance. > > I am also interested in block-based performance, but not as urgent as > above. (Since 7000 is mainly doing NAS today, in a non-HPC-clustered > fashion without Lustre. With Lustre, the performance competitive focuses are > different from above). > > Thanks, > z > Right, so hardware or software raid? NFS, CIFS, both? Win2k8 is going to blow serving NFS, but it can be done. Storage 7000 is going to have a COMPLETELY different performance envelope than vanilla opensolaris or solaris. With some customization using flash you might be able to get close, but if you want to know what a storage 7000 will do, you should ask for that, not just "opensolaris". Here's an example of a loaded up 7000: http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/a_quarter_million_nfs_iops If you want to compare it to something like NetApp though, it's tough, because how do you make your comparison? Price? What model NetApp are you going to use? What kind of server are you going to use? If you just want to use some numbers someone comes up with to make a decision on what platform to use, I'd argue you're going about it completely the wrong way. --Tim
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