First off, some very very impressive builds here. I recently went looking for a small home NAS (drobo, qnap, synology). Unimpressed with the price and features I decided to jump on a HP Microserver N40L (4 bays, 1.5ghz AMD, 2 gigs of ram), I've seen plenty of folks mention it here. I threw in 2x2tb and a 250gig drive it came with.
So here is where I think the wheels fall off my build. I put ESXi on a thumbdrive, boots, installed OpenIndiana on the 250gig drive and napp-it. I provisioned 1.5gig from each 2tb drive by presenting them to vmware as virtual disks (so they host a large vmdk blob) and setup a mirror.
While I'm not expecting great performance from it with the layers of virtualization, I am a bit taken back by the Seq Write speed.
My Bonnie results look like so:
Seq-Write: 7.144 MB/s
Seq-Read: 158 MB/s
Is my approach wrong or is there some tuning I could do to improve this? I would like to run a light vm or two on this but if my ESXi approach is wrong, well then.
Let me know!
So here is where I think the wheels fall off my build. I put ESXi on a thumbdrive, boots, installed OpenIndiana on the 250gig drive and napp-it. I provisioned 1.5gig from each 2tb drive by presenting them to vmware as virtual disks (so they host a large vmdk blob) and setup a mirror.
While I'm not expecting great performance from it with the layers of virtualization, I am a bit taken back by the Seq Write speed.
My Bonnie results look like so:
Seq-Write: 7.144 MB/s
Seq-Read: 158 MB/s
Is my approach wrong or is there some tuning I could do to improve this? I would like to run a light vm or two on this but if my ESXi approach is wrong, well then.
Let me know!