Probably CPU since all of the current source servers are older 16-thread
boxes.  But none of the source data is deduped and mostly disk (DISK
devtype NOT FILE).

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:37 PM, Skylar Thompson <skylar2 AT uw DOT edu> wrote:

> Are you CPU or disk-bound on the source or target servers? Even if you have
> lots of CPUs, replication might be running on a single thread and just
> using
> one CPU.
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 02:46:24PM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> > As we get deeper into Replication and my boss wants to use it more and
> more
> > as an offsite recovery platform.
> >
> > As we try to reach "best practices" of replicating everything, we are
> > finding this desire to be difficult if not impossible to achieve due to
> the
> > resource demands.
> >
> > Total we want to eventually replicate is around 700TB from 5-source
> servers
> > to 1-target server which is dedicated to replication.
> >
> > So the big question is, can this be done?
> >
> > We recently rebuilt the offsite target server to as big as we could
> afford
> > ($38K).  It has 256GB of RAM.  64-threads of CPU. Storage is primarily
> > 500TB of ISILON/NFS. Connectivity is via quad 10G (2-for IP traffic from
> > source servers and 2-for ISILON/NFS).
> >
> > Yet we can only replicate around 3TB daily when we backup around 7TB.
> >
> > Looking for suggestions/thoughts/experiences?
> >
> > All boxes are RHEL Linux and 7.1.7.300
> >
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