I agree that the overhead involved with managing enough NetWorker client
sessions to achieve that aggregate throughput, coupled with those client's
abilities (or not) to read the source data quickly enough from disk, make 7500
Mb/s unachievable in many environments.
But how about the little-known NetWorker feature of being able to clone over IP
between storage nodes? In this use case, the to-be-cloned data is already
aggregated in one place. I think it's reasonable to expect that
properly-configured storage nodes could sustain 900 MB/s (~+ 7500 Mb/s) from/to
disk/tape through a server's memory and I/O buses.
I took a quick look at the specs for the Sun dual 10 Gb/s card, and didn't see
words like 'TOE', though I did see 'application acceleration'. Anyone know if
these cards offload some of the IP stack processing form the host system CPU?
tl
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Adrian Saul
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 11:11 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] 7500 Mb/s on 10 GbE!
Because, in how many instances would you have such a configuration that
could push that sort of bandwidth? Even if you had clients on gigabit
pushing say 80Mb/s each, you would still need ~95 clients simultaneously
sustaining that throughput to reach 7500Mb/s. And thats off real
storage, not of a synthetic benchmark.
None the less, an impressive result.
Curtis Preston wrote:
> It's only back to back because they're waiting on their new switch. Why
> isn't it real world? Just because they don't have a switch in between?
>
> ---
> W. Curtis Preston
> Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
> VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
> On Behalf Of Siobhán Ellis
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:23 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] 7500 Mb/s on 10 GbE!
>
> Curtis,
>
> may not be a lie, but not exactly real world either!
>
> Back to back?
>
> Still, as you say, an impressive result
>
> Siobhan
>
>
> On 19/10/07 8:57 AM, "Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT GLASSHOUSE DOT COM> wrote:
>
>
>>I monitor several backup-related mailing lists, and a user on another
>>list is getting 7500 Mb/s on his 10 GbE card and was willing to share
>>how he did it.
>>
>>
>>
>>This was so significant I wanted to let NetWorker users know about it,
>>too:
>>
>>
>>
>>http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/146/47/
>>
>>
>>
>>---
>>
>>W. Curtis Preston
>>
>>Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
>>
>>VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
>>
>>
>>
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