Recent content by dilidolo

I think you have many things mixed up here. The 16TB llimit is per LUN but from what you describe, you are not using LUN. You seem to use SMB share which is FlexVolume backed that has much larger limit, exact limit is model specific, get your storage guy to find out. Another option is to use...

I would get Supermicro cage, Icydock quality is very average.

I had exactly same issue like yours before, same nic. Turn off flow control and that's it.

Turn flow control off in the driver conf file then reboot.

Get NVME SSD, cheaper and faster than.

It's been a few years now, I have 24*3Tb HGST Ultrastar and another 16*2Tb HGST Deskstar in two Supermicro chassis. 8*1TB Micron SSD, Intel DC P3700 as slog and cache. In the last 3-4 years, I have 2*2TB Deskstar failure 1*3TB Ultrastar failures. Was thinking to replace the 2TB with 6TB...

We looked at Tintri as well, very good product but in the end, I settled with Coho Data All Flash, much better architecture and a lot cheaper. Waiting for the gears to be deployed next month. I have 2 EMC VMAX3, 3PAR and NetApp. I'm also evaluating All Flash NetApp to replace both VMAX and 3PAR...

I use Solaris with ZFS/Comstar for most of my home needs. But I suggest you some great products from EMC which are free for non-production use. EMC Unity VSA EMC Unity VSA - EMC Store Community edition gives 4TB space, NFS/SMB(includes SMB3) and iSCSI EMC DataDomain Virtual Edition Data Domain...

I had problem with it before. Pass-through works for 750 and I can use the disk in Windows VMs, but Solaris based VMs don't work. Not sure if there is still issues as I gave up.

Asus WS series isn't bad but there are some compatibility issues with them, actually with any Asus boards. My Intel P3700 SSD doesn't work with any Asus boards, being it regular or WS boards. (Intel 750 works), or at best it only works in certain PCI-E slot. However, P3700 works with any of my...

Want want to comment on pfsense. My harddisk in pfsense box died yesterday and I had to replace it and do a reinstall. It's within minutes as well if you have ever backed up pfsense config. - reinstall pfsense - config lan ip - log on to webui and restore config - reboot, you are back in...

I have Intel 750 in my ESXi 6 hosts. They are FAST! much faster than Sata SSD. The main benefits of NVMe is extreme low latency and high queue depth. When you have multiple VMs running on it, performance is crazy comparing to SATA SSD.

ARC is adaptive, meaning hot data gets added to ARC and cold data gets removed dynamically. It never hurts to get more. I think it's 1TB data per 2GB of RAM. It's not the pool size but actual data size. Again, it depends on data as well. If it's all cold data, it's waste of money. You can...

PCI-E 750 works with Solaris 11.3. Is 400GB enough for L2ARC? It's always enough, the more you have, the more can be cached. Unless you turn dedup on and your RAM is not enough to store DDT, then you have to calculate the size for L2ARC to store DDT.

Finally got a chance to use Intel P3700 NVMe 400GB disk to replace S3700 as ZIL and move to Solaris 11.3. One hatch is that my motherboard only support PCIe 2.0 but it's not a issue for zil. Monitoring iostat on the zil device, it hits 530MB/s during tests which is significantly higher than...