Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:36:55 -0700 From: Michael DeMan <freebsd@deman.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10 Message-ID: <020081B1-A843-48CF-B79A-519BFC0A09FB@deman.com> References: <1A85CB12-53BB-4D38-8671-10378F6AE4EC@deman.com>
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Hi All,
If folks here are interested, let me know and I will get the data up =
somewhere on the benchmarks I am running.
Definitely neither scientific nor rigorous - just 'bonnie bash' some =
older hardware and see what happens. I can full data on the hardware up =
as well.
Thanks,
- mike
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Michael DeMan <solaris@deman.com>
> Date: March 18, 2011 6:06:25 PM PDT
> To: David Brodbeck <brodbd@uw.edu>
> Cc: Discussion list for OpenIndiana =
<openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>, "zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org =
discuss" <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org>
> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] best migration path =
from Solaris 10
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> Hi David,
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> Caught your note about bonnie, actually do some testing myself over =
the weekend.
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> All on older hardware for fun - dual opteron 285 with 16GB RAM. Disk =
systems is off a pair of SuperMicro SATA cards, with a combination of WD =
enterprise and Seagate ES 1TB drives. No ZIL, no L2ARC, no tuning at =
all from base FreeNAS install.
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> 10 drives total, I'm going to be running tests as below, mostly =
curious about IOPS and to sort out a little debate with a co-worker.
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> - all 10 in one raidz2 (running now)
> - 5 by 2-way mirrors
> - 2 by 5-disk raidz1
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> Script is as below - if folks would find the data I collect be useful =
information at all, let me know and I will post it publicly somewhere.
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>=20
>=20
>=20
> freenas# cat test.sh
> #!/bin/sh
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> # Basic test for file I/O. We run lots and lots of the tradditional
> # 'bonnie' tool at 50GB file size, starting one every minute. =
Resulting
> # data should give us a good work mixture in the middle given all the =
different
> # tests that bonnnie runs, 100 instances running at the same time, and =
at different
> # stages of their processing.
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>=20
> MAX=3D100
> COUNT=3D0
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> FILESYSTEM=3Dtestrz2
> LOG=3D${FILESYSTEM}.log
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>=20
> date > ${LOG}
> echo "Test with file system named ${FILESYSTEM} and Configuration =
of..." >> ${LOG}
> zpool status >> ${LOG}
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> # DEMAN grab zfs and regular dev iostats every 10 minutes during test
> zpool iostat -v 600 >> ${LOG} &
> iostat -w 600 ada0 ada1 ada2 ada3 ada4 ada5 ada6 ada7 ada8 ada9 > =
${LOG}.iostat &=20
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>=20
> while [ $COUNT -le $MAX ]; do
> echo kicking off bonnie
> bonnie -d /mnt/${FILESYSTEM} -s 50000 &
> sleep 60;
> COUNT=3D$((count+1));
> done;
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>=20
> On Mar 18, 2011, at 3:26 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
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>> I'm in a similar position, so I'll be curious what kinds of responses =
you get. I can give you a thumbnail sketch of what I've looked at so =
far:
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>> I evaluated FreeBSD, and ruled it out because I need NFSv4, and =
FreeBSD's NFSv4 support is still in an early stage. The NFS stability =
and performance just isn't there yet, in my opinion.
>>=20
>> Nexenta Core looked promising, but locked up in bonnie++ NFS testing =
with our RedHat nodes, so its stability is a bit of a question mark for =
me.
>>=20
>> I haven't gotten the opportunity to thoroughly evaluate OpenIndiana, =
yet. It's only available as a DVD ISO, and my test machine currently =
has only a CD-ROM drive. Changing that is on my to-do list, but other =
things keep slipping in ahead of it.
>>=20
>> For now I'm running OpenSolaris, with a locally-compiled version of =
Samba. (The OpenSolaris Samba package is very old and has several =
unpatched security holes, at this point.)
>>=20
>> --=20
>> David Brodbeck
>> System Administrator, Linguistics
>> University of Washington
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