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Hi, On a newly upgraded ESXi 5.0 host I also tried to upgrade OpenIndiana vm to the latest 151a version. The OI vm was running Napp-it 0.500s. During the OI update I bricked the vm, basically by running out of space on rpool. I tried to increase the disk size available for the OI vm, hoping...

While running IOmeter, I am noticing something strange: a bunch of drives in the pool don't seem to do anything. iostat -xcn 5 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0...

I was just thinking the same to test :) Here is the new pool: pool: tank state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 5h0m with 0 errors on Wed Mar 16 00:45:21 2011 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0...

I changed to cables, this is the new benchmarks (and some new). 9 4000MB F drive tank2 SAN with ZIL and cache 4 mirrored drives 572.1 305.4 seq vs previous test 556.9 303.5 515.5 250.8 512k 516.1 107.7 35.09 11.65 4K...

Hi DJ, Thank you for your reply. I was certainly hoping for better performance on RAID-10 arrays with FC connection. Since you have very similar setup, may I ask what is your pool configuration and what speed are you getting?

ChrisBenn, thanks... copying from zfs LUN to RAM drive seems to give a sustained ~ 400 mb/s speed. I might have been bottlenecking on the Win2008... I will get an other 8 GB/s fiber card soon that I can install as a storage HBA for an ESXi 4.1 server, I will run more test on that. However...

Astronot, the LSI 9211-8i is connected to the PRI_J0 and to the SEC_J0 connectors on the expander. (Item 8 and 11 in the documentation, Appendix D, page D-3.) Thanks!

I started my second (cross)post with an apology... But here again: my apologies...

Thank you for your quick reply. iostat for copying a 3 GB file to RAM disk on the Win2008 box over 8 gb/s fiber, from each pool (hope I will figure out how to post here an attached file next time): cpu us sy wt id 2 5 0 94 extended device statistics...

Hi, I posted this at an other thread, but reading this one seems more appropriate one. (Apology for the double posting.) I have an all-in-one ESXi, OpenIndiana test server but I am not happy with the speed. ESXi / OpenIndiana server: Supermicro X8DTH-6F mobo, 2 x Intel Xeon E5520...

Hi, I have an all-in-one ESXi, OpenIndiana test server but I am not happy with the speed. ESXi / OpenIndiana server: Supermicro X8DTH-6F mobo, 2 x Intel Xeon E5520, 24 GB ECC memory Supermicro SC846E26-R1200B dual port 6 gb/s SAS expander 24 x ST32000444SS 2 TB SAS drive 1 x LSI...