April 24, 2013

06:58 pm NexentaStor Project Systems: RE: HA config with HP DL380/D2700

No idea on that setup however ran Nexenta on a DL380G4 for a while even using the embedded RAID controller and worked...

06:55 pm NexentaStor Project Nexenta Experts: RE: Hardware Raid Sotrage Controller Drivers not detecting while installing nexe...

Stick with the standard non-RAID SAS HBAs. If a card supports Cache ram and higher RAID numbers then 5 then chances a...

06:50 pm NexentaStor Project Performance discussions: RE: many cores with low Ghz, low core count with high Ghz?

I have not tested A-B comparisons but would anticipate the faster you can get the data through the processor and ram ...

06:43 pm NexentaStor Project Newbies - Welcome: RE: Performance settings for 3.1.4/4.0 to work with ESXi 5.1 (aggregate vs IPMP)?

I cannot comment much on the NFS approach however the iSCSI approach has proven to work well. In my setup I've placed...

April 17, 2012

10:10 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Deduplication Volume / Folder

Ditto!
I do not use dedup anymore. Disks are cheap. Got burned even with 24GB ram. My theory is when dedup was int...

09:58 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: SATA Controller Card

When looking for controller cards stay away from the cheap SATA chips (some 20$ ones will not even work) and the expe...

08:07 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Network Switches with 1Gb/10Gb specifications

I do not have any experience with these but here's another one I've had a little experience with to toss in the pot a...

07:57 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: 15k RPM vs SSD only SAN

The way I tested is with VMware Labs' tool IO Analyzer. (uses iometer and wine with a nice web interface) This is mos...

April 16, 2012

09:05 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: 15k RPM vs SSD only SAN

I've got a san with standard SATA and 48GB ram and we can flood 4x 1G connections. It really depends on if you are do...

08:58 am NexentaStor Project General Discussion: RE: Network Switches with 1Gb/10Gb specifications

I've had mixed results with Dell especially in more complex networks, unfortunately more negative then positive espec...