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Re: [Networker] Solaris 10 Global Zone Server Networker 7.4
2007-08-30 13:09:10
Hi Ben,
I have a few comments on the T2000 as a backup machine. We bough a 6
CPU 8GB RAM T2000 for our backup server. This system is indeed an
impressive box, as you probably know, since it sounds like you have some
experience with it. However, you need to be aware that as a backup
server, it can have bottlenecks. The single task processing power of
the Sun T1 processor architecture is not very high.
We were using a storage array on an iSCSI SAN as an advanced file system
device. We used software iSCSI on the T2000 for the initiator. When
backups were running full speed, the maximum throughput we saw on the
T2000 to the iSCSI SAN was about 10-15MB/sec, and if there were more
than 2 sessions running at a time, this would slow down to 5-7MB/sec.
All the while, the T2000 would only be using 10-20% of it's total CPU.
IO wait was always 0, the SAN was not the bottleneck. Basically, what
was happening was a few of the 24 processing threads on the T2000 were
pegged, and the rest of the machine was idle.
We recently changed the backup server to a 2 CPU Sun V215, a much less
powerful system, by all accounts, but it has about 4 times the single
thread integer performance of the T2000. The write speeds to the SAN
now top out at about 30-40MB/sec, while the CPU usage on the V215 hits
80-90% sometimes.
I'm not sure what backup media you're storing your data to, but I will
bet you will find the T2000 under utilized at best, and at worst, you
may experience poor throughput.
Good luck,
Jon
Benjamin Harner wrote:
Hey All,
I am in the midst of taking the big leap here and planing an upgrade
from 7.2.1 to 7.4. I plan on putting it on a T2000 that runs other apps
now(internal admin box you could say). I am going to move everything on
there now to a local zone and run networker from the global zone.
Anyone have a setup like this? If so any issues or gotchas?
Thanks
Ben
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