I'm loving the results I've gotten thus far on my "SME" oriented ZFS NAS build.
In short summary, I built a low-cost high performance NAS:
Benchmarking on the hardware using Bonnie++ from within the napp-it interface returns 529 MB/s sequential reads and 497 MB/s sequential writes. This blows me away considering the (relatively) small amount of money invested. This is from an array with 6 Seagate Constellation ES 1TB drives, and a seventh as hot spare. No read or write cache other than the small 16mb on-board each drive, and Bonnie++ was moving many gigs of data, so no cache impact there.
I wrote up some details on my own site, including a more specific build list if anyone is interested.
In my initial network testing, I'm getting around 80 MB/s writes (directory copies, mixed content) across the network using SMB/CIFS. I haven't done any more properly organized benchmarking over the network yet due to time demand from other projects, but I'll certainly give that a shot if anyone is interested. Can anyone suggest a good across-the-network NAS performance benchmarking tool? I've set up NIC bonding and I'd love to see what this thing will scale to under concurrent load.
In short summary, I built a low-cost high performance NAS:
- new Sandy Bridge architecture Xeon E3 1240
- large-capacity "Nearline" 7200rpm SAS-2 drives
- high speed LSI HBA with SAS 6G (no raid)
- OS is OpenIndiana 148b
- NAS control panel is napp-it
Benchmarking on the hardware using Bonnie++ from within the napp-it interface returns 529 MB/s sequential reads and 497 MB/s sequential writes. This blows me away considering the (relatively) small amount of money invested. This is from an array with 6 Seagate Constellation ES 1TB drives, and a seventh as hot spare. No read or write cache other than the small 16mb on-board each drive, and Bonnie++ was moving many gigs of data, so no cache impact there.
I wrote up some details on my own site, including a more specific build list if anyone is interested.
In my initial network testing, I'm getting around 80 MB/s writes (directory copies, mixed content) across the network using SMB/CIFS. I haven't done any more properly organized benchmarking over the network yet due to time demand from other projects, but I'll certainly give that a shot if anyone is interested. Can anyone suggest a good across-the-network NAS performance benchmarking tool? I've set up NIC bonding and I'd love to see what this thing will scale to under concurrent load.