Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Craig Morgan
And I'd just add … amke sure you are running a recent enough release of ZFS to support importation of a pool without the SLOG device being available, just in case export/recovery of the pool need to be attempted elsewhere than the traditional server. Of course they also limit deployments in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, March 1, 2011 16:32, Rocky Shek wrote: David, STEC/DataON ZeusRAM(Z4RZF3D-8UC-DNS) SSD now available for users in channel. It is 8GB DDR3 RAM based SAS SSD protected by supercapacitor and NVRAM 16GB. It is designed for ZFS ZIL with low latency http://dataonstorage.com/zeusram

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, March 1, 2011 10:35, Garrett D'Amore wrote: a) do you need an SLOG at all? Some workloads (asynchronous ones) will never benefit from an SLOG. I've been fighting the urge to maybe do something about ZIL (which is what we're talking about here, right?). My load is CIFS, not NFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Pooser
On 3/2/11 9:42 AM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: Says call for price. I know what that means, it means If you have to ask, you can't afford it. I called. It's $3k -- not a fit for my archive servers, but an interesting idea for a database server I'm building Probably not a great

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-02 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Mar 2 at 9:58, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Tue, March 1, 2011 10:35, Garrett D'Amore wrote: a) do you need an SLOG at all? Some workloads (asynchronous ones) will never benefit from an SLOG. I've been fighting the urge to maybe do something about ZIL (which is what we're

[zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi I'm running OpenSolaris 148 on a few boxes, and newer boxes are getting installed as we speak. What would you suggest for a good SLOG device? It seems some new PCI-E-based ones are hitting the market, but will those require special drivers? Cost is obviously alsoo an issue here

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:03:42AM -0800, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Hi I'm running OpenSolaris 148 on a few boxes, and newer boxes are getting installed as we speak. What would you suggest for a good SLOG device? It seems some new PCI-E-based ones are hitting the market, but will those

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread Khushil Dep
I'd back that. X25E's are great but also look at the STECH ZeusIOPS as well as the new Intel's. --- W. A. Khushil Dep - khushil@gmail.com - 07905374843 Windows - Linux - Solaris - ZFS - XenServer - FreeBSD - C/C++ - PHP/Perl - LAMP - Nexenta - Development - Consulting Contracting

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
a) do you need an SLOG at all? Some workloads (asynchronous ones) will never benefit from an SLOG. We're planning to use this box for CIFS/NFS, so we'll need an SLOG to speed things up. b) form factor. at least one manufacturer uses a PCIe card which is not compliant with the PCIe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:56:35AM -0800, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: a) do you need an SLOG at all? Some workloads (asynchronous ones) will never benefit from an SLOG. We're planning to use this box for CIFS/NFS, so we'll need an SLOG to speed things up. b) form factor. at least one

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread David Magda
On Tue, March 1, 2011 11:11, Khushil Dep wrote: I'd back that. X25E's are great but also look at the STECH ZeusIOPS as well as the new Intel's. STEC's products are not available to retail customers, only OEMs. (Unless something has changed recently, in which case a link would be useful.)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread Rocky Shek
-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of David Magda Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:30 AM To: Khushil Dep Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices? On Tue, March 1, 2011 11:11, Khushil Dep wrote: I'd back

Re: [zfs-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

2011-03-01 Thread Garrett D'Amore
The PCIe based ones are good (typically they are quite fast), but check the following first: a) do you need an SLOG at all? Some workloads (asynchronous ones) will never benefit from an SLOG. b) form factor. at least one manufacturer uses a PCIe card which is not compliant with