Hi all,
I'm a ZFS user for more than 4 years and I'm so glad to take advantage of this excellent filesystem on FreeBSD. Since then, I built several servers. Small ones until as big as 60 TB servers and all of them as stable as a rock. But, there is an issue that I never could solve, which is: How to get more performance on writing/reading data to/from these servers? I really would like to know someone here who have a FreeBSD server running on technologies faster than gigabit to get real good throughput to transfer data. I know there are some options like link aggregation, but this only gives me load balancing and fault tolerance and not more throughput worth these big servers.
I've tested several times 10 Gb cards over SMB protocol in a point-to-point environment and the maximum speed I could reach was like 90 MB/s, due to the protocol I guess. I'm the IT manager in some facilities, and the need for more performance on these servers is really big. Data transfer as big as 8 TB from FreeBSD/ZFS servers to other volumes over gigabit is really a pain.
Any comments and suggestions here are welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Danilo
I'm a ZFS user for more than 4 years and I'm so glad to take advantage of this excellent filesystem on FreeBSD. Since then, I built several servers. Small ones until as big as 60 TB servers and all of them as stable as a rock. But, there is an issue that I never could solve, which is: How to get more performance on writing/reading data to/from these servers? I really would like to know someone here who have a FreeBSD server running on technologies faster than gigabit to get real good throughput to transfer data. I know there are some options like link aggregation, but this only gives me load balancing and fault tolerance and not more throughput worth these big servers.
I've tested several times 10 Gb cards over SMB protocol in a point-to-point environment and the maximum speed I could reach was like 90 MB/s, due to the protocol I guess. I'm the IT manager in some facilities, and the need for more performance on these servers is really big. Data transfer as big as 8 TB from FreeBSD/ZFS servers to other volumes over gigabit is really a pain.
Any comments and suggestions here are welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Danilo