You'd have to be more specific than that. Your comparing a filesystem (ZFS) against a file-sharing protocol (SMB3).Just curious if anyone had done any speedtests/comparisons (aka benchmarks) of
ZFS = napp-it/OI/OmniOS/Nexenta
vs
SMB3 in Server 2012/2012 R2
That is actually the best question. If you could have the filesystem features and performance of ZFS with the file-sharing performance of SMB3 it would be ideal.Maybe, my general question should have been; why pick one vs the other?
I'm hoping some smart geek or geeks have figured a way to make this a reality.......If you could have the filesystem features and performance of ZFS with the file-sharing performance of SMB3 it would be ideal.
Cross platform dynamic multi-pathing. drool I have hope for ReFS, but ZFS has a little bit of a head start.That is actually the best question. If you could have the filesystem features and performance of ZFS with the file-sharing performance of SMB3 it would be ideal.
> ZFS/iSCSI to Windows 2012 to combine both worlds : that is SMB1/SMB2, quite slow by today's standards? yes, noUse ZFS/iSCSI to Windows 2012 to combine both worlds
hope for SMB3 to come in Solaris CIFS
... If you are comparing to Storage Spaces then I don't think you have to do a lot of benchmarking to know which one wins ...
I believe you are mistaken, it is not SMB1/2 for ZFS/iScsi. The option Gea is mentioned is using iScsi to share the ZFS storage to the Windows server, which can then format it to NTFS or other file system and share it to your network via SMB3. Hence, combining both worlds. I believe you would mostly do this with an all in one box> ZFS/iSCSI to Windows 2012 to combine both worlds : that is SMB1/SMB2, quite slow by today's standards? yes, no
> SMB3 to come in Solaris CIFS : Is this on the roadmap?
btw, I assume there are drivers for the Mellanox FDR NICs
Playing with it now. Not impressed. but I have some more tweaks to get through before I draw any final conclusions.PigLover,
Have you benchmarked Server 2012 R2 SS Tiering/Write-Back Caching?
I did this quite awhile ago. Hardest thing used to be that Hyper-V is not so great with non-Linux hosts and ESXi 5.1 (free) was RAM limited.I believe you are mistaken, it is not SMB1/2 for ZFS/iScsi. The option Gea is mentioned is using iScsi to share the ZFS storage to the Windows server, which can then format it to NTFS or other file system and share it to your network via SMB3. Hence, combining both worlds. I believe you would mostly do this with an all in one box
I kept it very general, as I was really looking for some back & forth dialogue.
At the end of the day, both can be used for the same purposes
ZFS can host VMs that are used File servers, Databases, Application servers etc
SMB3 can be the "highway" to VMs hosted on Server 2012
Are we talking ZFS with dedicated ZIL (eg, STEC Zeus or SAS SSDs) or
are we talking Storage Spaces + multi channel SMB3 + a couple Mellanox FDR NICs
Maybe, my general question should have been; why pick one vs the other?
This is not a question of the OS but a question of the SMB server.I think that illumos will be one of the last platforms to implement SMB 3 or 4 at this point because it is not derived from Samba but Procom. I can not find any plans for illumos to support or implement SMB 3 or 4. While Linux and BSD will support the current release 4.0.10. If anyone can find anything different please let me know.
I run hyper-v and this really is putting a kink in the chain. I need zfs and smb 3+ so my only choice is to move to BSD or maybe Linux. What OS would you choose for the best zfs implementation BSD?
"The illumos CIFS server was derived from an implementation that Sun bought from Procom in 2005. Contrary to what many people assume, the implementation is not derived from Samba."