jmichealson
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I've recently attempted to utilize an all in one ESXi , FreeNAS solution. Previously I had been using CentOS as the NFS server and a 8888ELP card passed through via ESXi. 6x 2Tb disks R10. Worked well for years.
After discussing with friends around who are happy with FreeNAS, decided to upgrade the single proc super micro SAX to a better SM dual 6x core with lots O ram. Did that, ended up getting a IBM card and flashing it to LSI to use as a JBOD as the 8888ELP simply wouldn't pass through to FreeNAS properly. Again, this worked with CentOS for a long time. Everything works properly, even used the ESXi vmxnic3 driver I found on the forum here in BSD. Problem is NFS on the 10Gb vmic is 20Mbs compared to 128Mbs on the raid 5 and it was far higher on a single SSD datastore for obvious reasons.
I have 4x 2TB disks in ZFS, and 2x 32gb ssd in ZIL mirror.
Willing to post any data about the system, anyone have any thoughts? Ping @ 9k frames works fine... wireshark really doesn't show fragmentation like I expected....?
Thanks in advance.
After discussing with friends around who are happy with FreeNAS, decided to upgrade the single proc super micro SAX to a better SM dual 6x core with lots O ram. Did that, ended up getting a IBM card and flashing it to LSI to use as a JBOD as the 8888ELP simply wouldn't pass through to FreeNAS properly. Again, this worked with CentOS for a long time. Everything works properly, even used the ESXi vmxnic3 driver I found on the forum here in BSD. Problem is NFS on the 10Gb vmic is 20Mbs compared to 128Mbs on the raid 5 and it was far higher on a single SSD datastore for obvious reasons.
I have 4x 2TB disks in ZFS, and 2x 32gb ssd in ZIL mirror.
Willing to post any data about the system, anyone have any thoughts? Ping @ 9k frames works fine... wireshark really doesn't show fragmentation like I expected....?
Thanks in advance.