March 19, 2015

ZFS on Linux vs. LSI CacheCade: quick sysbench

Quick shot on one of our servers (2 x E5-2667 v2 @ 3.30GHz, 256GB RAM, 6 x HGST HUS156060VLS600 15K SAS drives, 2 x mirrored 80GB Intel DC S3500 as cache for both tests) Disk access is done using a BBU backed LSI is a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-4i utilizing both SSDs at RAID1 as R/W cache and a IBM ServeRAID M1015 cross flashed to LSI 9211-8i in IT mode for the ZFS tests. Read more