On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 03:28:29PM +0000, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Jens Elkner wrote: Hi Robert, > > > >just got a quote from our campus reseller, that readzilla and logzilla > >are not available for the X4540 - hmm strange.... Anyway, wondering > >whether it is possible/supported/would make sense to use a Sun Flash > >Accelerator F20 PCIe Card in a X4540 instead of 2.5" SSDs? > > > >If so, is it possible to "partition" the F20, e.g. into 36 GB "logzilla", > >60GB "readzilla" (also interesting for other Xnnnn servers)? > > > > > IIRC the card presents 4x LUNs so you could use each of them for > different purpose. > You could also use different slices.
oh. coool - IMHO this would be sufficient for our purposes (see next posting). > >me or not. Is this correct? > > It still does. The capacitor is not for flushing data to disks drives! > The card has a small amount of DRAM memory on it which is being flushed > to FLASH. Capacitor is to make sure it actually happens if the power is > lost. Yepp - found the specs. (BTW: Was probably to late to think about the term "Flash Accelerator" having DRAM prestoserv in mind ;-)). Thanx, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
