Hey thanks for the replies everyone. Saddly most of those options will not work, since we are using a SUN Unified Storage 7210, the only option is to buy the SUN SSD's for it, which is about $15k USD for a pair. We also don't have the ability to shut off ZIL or any of the other options that one might have under OpenSolaris itself :(
It sounds like I do want to change to a RAID10 mirror instead of RAIDz. It sounds like enabling write-cash without the ZIL in place might work but would lead to corruption should something crash. So the question is with a proper ZIL SSD from SUN, and a RAID10... would I be able to support all the VM's or would it still be pushing the limits a 44 disk pool? Today there are 30 VM's, 25 are Windows 2008 and 5 are Cent OS 5. A couple are DB servers that see very light load. The only thing that see's any real load is a build server which we get a lot of complaints about. I did some testing and posted my results a month ago, using OpenSolaris and 5 disks with my personal Intel SSD and saw good results, but I don't know how it will scale :( -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
