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Re: [Networker] Performance of NW 7.2.x on Solaris 8 or 9 or 10?

2007-04-04 13:19:21
Subject: Re: [Networker] Performance of NW 7.2.x on Solaris 8 or 9 or 10?
From: Ben Harner <benjamin.harner AT MARYMOUNT DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:13:49 -0400
Hey John,

We currently run Solaris 8 on an Ultra 5.  Works great but we only
backup maybe 20 servers.  The best performance gain would be the NIC.
If you can go gig y not right. :)  Or you can get on of those new sun
server with the 10gig nics.

Ben



John Stoffel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We're planning on upgrading an old E450 with Solaris 8 running NW
> 7.2.x with a new V440, but we're debating which OS to run.  Most of
> our remaining Sun boxes still run Solaris 8, it's been nice and stable
> for years.  We do have some Solaris 9 boxes, and I seem to recall that
> 9 made network and IO performance boosts over 8.  But it might be time
> to dip our toes into the Solaris 10 waters.  
> 
> Our setup is a Netapp FAS960 with around 12Tb of data, backed up via
> NFS currently, a Notes server, plus some other small misc boxes to
> backup.   We've looked into NDMP backups in the past, but the limits
> on restores being 10,240 files or less for Indexed backups really just
> kills using NDMP for us.  
> 
> We're planning on moving to a private Gigabit link between the Netapp
> and the V440, hopefully using Jumbo Frames (and point to point, no
> swith in the middle).  Our jukebox is a Quantum P4000 with a pair of
> SCSI attached SDLT 320 drives.  They max out around 25mb/sec
> currently.
> 
> So, what do people think?  Solaris 9?  Solaris 10?  Which will give us
> a performance boost?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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