On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:40:52PM -0500, "Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D." wrote: > please check out the ZFS appliance 7120 spec 2.4Ghz /24GB memory and > ZIL(SSD) > may be try the ZFS simulator SW
Good point. Thanks. > regards > > On 12/12/2011 2:28 PM, Albert Chin wrote: > >We're preparing to purchase an X4170M2 as an upgrade for our existing > >X4100M2 server for ZFS, NFS, and iSCSI. We have a choice for CPU, some > >more expensive than others. Our current system has a dual-core 1.8Ghz > >Opteron 2210 CPU with 8GB. Seems like either a 6-core Intel E5649 > >2.53Ghz CPU or 4-core Intel E5620 2.4Ghz CPU would be more than > >enough. Based on what we're using the system for, it should be more > >I/O bound than CPU bound. We are doing compression in ZFS but that > >shouldn't be too CPU intensive. Seems we should be caring more about > >more cores than high Ghz. > > > >Recommendations? > > > > -- > Hung-Sheng Tsao Ph D. > Founder& Principal > HopBit GridComputing LLC > cell: 9734950840 > http://laotsao.wordpress.com/ > http://laotsao.blogspot.com/ > > begin:vcard > fn:Hung-Sheng Tsao > n:Tsao;Hung-Sheng > email;internet:laot...@gmail.com > tel;cell:9734950840 > x-mozilla-html:TRUE > version:2.1 > end:vcard > -- albert chin (ch...@thewrittenword.com) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss