Playing with 10GigE

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PigLover

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odditory said:
What about speed between two windows boxes?
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I've thought about that. Wondering how a Server-2008 box does as a fileserver over Samba. Seems like it might be a good exercise. I am planning to test that, but without having a switch in the path I am one-NIC short of being able to set it up. The 10Gbe is point-to-point from my editing workstation to my fileserver and then separately from the fileserver to the ESXi host, so I don't really have a way to test this right now. Ideally I'd really like to test bare-metal Server2008 as well as virtualized under ESXi and Hyper-V. Don't know if I will have time. I still have the Juniper switch sitting around so I could put it back in if i had to...
 
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fagiano

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If anybody knows how to tune Samba/CIFS shares on SE11 I'd love to hear it...
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If you haven't done any special settings in your share you should be getting performances not to far from NFS. Try to disable 'atime'. I get better CIFS transfers than yours on a 1Gbe with only 4 HDD in raidz1 a X3440 and half the RAM. ~100-120 MB/s both read and write with defaults and atime disabled.

ciao
Alberto
 
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murtoz

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:) Just wanted to say how much I am enjoying this thread! Please carry on optimising your storage and one fine day I might emulate your setup (should I ever win the lottery!)
 
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iieeann

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Nice post! I can use this as guideline to setup my game later ^^

I just ordered 2x 10GBE adapter to play around, X520-T2. Might be able to test it next week. I don't use switch though, it is simply too expensive for me.
 
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_Adrian_

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This is interesting :)

I have some a bunch of Fiber channel SAN from HP kicking around...
Sadly the controller is SCSI U320 based, but it does support up to 4 SCSi shelfs or 8 SATA shelfs
The SCSI MSA30 supports up to 14 SCSi drives 300GB each or MSA20 supports up to 12 SATA drives maximum 2TB each drive.

However, I also have a Smart Array 6404 card that i can use.
What are you using for server software and for benchmarking ??

Also, what raid level are you running ?

DAMMIT...
Just realized how old this post was.
 
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