Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
Heya Kent, Kent Watsen wrote: It sounds good, that way, but (in theory), you'll see random I/O suffer a bit when using RAID-Z2: the extra parity will drag performance down a bit. I know what you are saying, but I , wonder if it would be noticeable? I Well, noticeable again comes back to

[zfs-discuss] PLOGI errors

2007-09-16 Thread Gino
Hello, today we made some tests with failed drives on a zpool. (SNV60, 2xHBA, 4xJBOD connected through 2 Brocade 2800) On the log we found hundred of the following errors: Sep 16 12:04:23 svrt12 fp: [ID 517869 kern.info] NOTICE: fp(0): PLOGI to 11dca failed state=Timeout, reason=Hardware Error

Re: [zfs-discuss] PLOGI errors

2007-09-16 Thread Victor Latushkin
Gino, although these messages show some similarity to ones in the Sun Alert you are referring to, it looks like this is unrelated. Sun Alert 57773 describes symptoms of a problem seen in SAN configurations with specific switches (Brocade SilkWorm Switch 12000, 24000, 3250, 3850, 3900) with

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-16 Thread Anton B. Rang
- can have 6 (2+2) w/ 0 spares providing 6000 GB with MTTDL of 28911.68 years This should, of course, set off one's common-sense alert. it is 91 times more likely to fail and this system will contain data that I don't want to risk losing If you don't want to risk losing data, you need

Re: [zfs-discuss] [xen-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-16 Thread David Edmondson
One option I'm still holding on to is to also use the ZFS system as a Xen-server - that is OpenSolaris would be running in Dom0... Given that the Xen hypervisor has a pretty small cpu/memory footprint, do you think it could share 2-cores + 4Gb with ZFS or should I allocate 3 cores of

Re: [zfs-discuss] [xen-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-16 Thread Kent Watsen
David Edmondson wrote: One option I'm still holding on to is to also use the ZFS system as a Xen-server - that is OpenSolaris would be running in Dom0... Given that the Xen hypervisor has a pretty small cpu/memory footprint, do you think it could share 2-cores + 4Gb with ZFS or should I

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-16 Thread Kent Watsen
I know what you are saying, but I , wonder if it would be noticeable? I Well, noticeable again comes back to your workflow. As you point out to Richard, it's (theoretically) 2x IOPS difference, which can be very significant for some people. Yeah, but my point is if it would be noticeable

Re: [zfs-discuss] hardware sizing for a zfs-based system?

2007-09-16 Thread Ian Collins
Kent Watsen wrote: Glad you brought that up - I currently have an APC 2200XL (http://www.apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SU2200XLNET) - its rated for 1600 watts, but my current case selections are saying they have a 1500W 3+1, should I be worried? Probably not,