On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 00:01 -0500, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
In addition to Oleg's suggestions...
> Essentially what is happening is your drives are only able to sustain
> certain
> amount of parallel i/o activity before degrading the performance due
> to all the
> seeking going on. Ideally
In general, when writing messages to this list, you need to be more
concise about what you are asking. I see so much information here, I'm
not sure what is relevant to your few interspersed questions and what is
not. I will try to answer your specific question...
Also, in the future, please use
Hello (and a special hello to all my ex-co-workers from the CFS days :)
The company where I work now has grown fast in the past year and we
suddenly find ourselves in need of a lot of storage. For 5 years the
company ran on a 60gig server, last year we got a 1TB RAID that is now
almost full.
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:51 +0100, Nick Jennings wrote:
> Hello (and a special hello to all my ex-co-workers from the CFS days :)
And MVD days too. ;-)
> The company where I work now has grown fast in the past year and we
> suddenly find ourselves in need of a lot of storage. For 5 years the
Hi Brian! Thanks for the reply, comments below
Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> Instead of just adding another 1TB server, I need to plan for a more
>> scalable solution. Immediately Lustre came to mind, but I'm wondering
>> about the performance. Basically our company does niche web-hosting for
>>
MD3000 series doesn't seem to have raid 6 support, which could be very
useful with lots of sata drives.
Also MD3000i doesn't specify LACP support for the dual or quad Ethernet
ports on the enclosure. But
a pe1950 + perc 6 with MD1000 has raid 6 support and the OSS can benefit
from good ethernet
Thank you very much for this feedback Balagopal, it's extremely useful.
I will look into the MD1000 and revise my plan.
-Nick
Balagopal Pillai wrote:
> MD3000 series doesn't seem to have raid 6 support, which could be very
> useful with lots of sata drives.
> Also MD3000i doesn't specify LACP su
Nick Jennings wrote:
> Hello (and a special hello to all my ex-co-workers from the CFS days :)
>
> The company where I work now has grown fast in the past year and we
> suddenly find ourselves in need of a lot of storage. For 5 years the
> company ran on a 60gig server, last year we got a 1TB
FYI
Dell MD3000 storage supports RAID6 but you need to uprade RAID
controllers with the latest firmware to Version:07.35.22.60, A06
You can
download it from Dell support website.
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Initial Release of Firmware Generation 2 Featuring the Following
Enhancements
- Supports greater than 2TB LUN