I confirm that form the fileserver point of view and storage, i had more
network connections used.

Bruno


On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:00:21 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:14:10AM +0000, Bruno Sousa wrote:
>>    Hi all,
>> 
>>    Let me tell you all that the MC/S *does* make a difference...I had a
>>    windows fileserver using an ISCSI connection to a host running
snv_134
>>    with an average speed of 20-35 mb/s...After the upgrade to snv_151a
>>    (Solaris 11 express) this same fileserver got a performance boost
and
>>    now
>>    has an average speed of 55-60mb/s.
>> 
>>    Not double performance, but WAY better , specially if we consider
that
>>    this performance boost was purely software based :)
>> 
> 
> Did you verify you're using more connections after the update? 
> Or was is just *other* COMSTAR (and/or kernel) updates making the
> difference..
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>>    Nice...nice job COMSTAR guys!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>    Bruno
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>    On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:49:59 -0500, Jim Dunham
>>    <james.dun...@oracle.com>
>>    wrote:
>> 
>>      On Nov 16, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Ross Walker wrote:
>> 
>>        On Nov 16, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Tim Cook <[1]...@cook.ms> wrote:
>> 
>>          AFAIK, esx/i doesn't support L4 hash, so that's a non-starter.
>> 
>>        For iSCSI one just needs to have a second (third or fourth...)
>>        iSCSI
>>        session on a different IP to the target and run mpio/mpxio/mpath
>>        whatever your OS calls multi-pathing.
>> 
>>      MC/S (Multiple Connections per Sessions) support was added to the
>>      iSCSI
>>      Target in COMSTAR, now available in Oracle Solaris 11 Express.
>>      - Jim
>> 
>>        -Ross
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