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Re: [Veritas-bu] 10GB network + perf questions etc

2007-08-14 04:41:17
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 10GB network + perf questions etc
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: Dominik Pietrzykowski <dominik_pietrzykowski AT toll.com DOT au>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:17:33 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Dominik Pietrzykowski wrote:

>
>
>
> Hi Group,
>
> Just curious to know if anyone is using 10GB network (fibre/copper, is
> copper available yet at 10GB ???) on their media servers or clients and what
> sort of data transfer rates are they getting ???
>
> I'm waiting for my 10GB blade for the switch to come from the US, it's
> taking ages !!!!
>
> Also, are you using Solaris or windows on these ???
>
> What's the best you've seen on 100MB and 1GB copper/fibre networks ???
>
> What data rates are you seeing via HBAs 2/4GB ????
>
> Are you using standard backup method or flashbackup ?
>
> I've played around with flash and on a server with about 4.7TB of small
> files, I have gone from 10MB/s -> 70MB/s. It's a V490
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dominik
>
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I think feeding the pipe is the hardest problem and 10GBps performance is 
typically rated at 200-250 MiB/s in practice, at least from what I have 
seen.

Justin.
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