Just a few weeks back I was asked to put together a large amount of storage for a last minute project. I usually avoid projects like this, but it's a special case and thus far it has gone as planned (knock on wood). Since I am waiting on a few external delays that are outside my control, I figured there's no better time then now to do some performance tuning. I'm working on a quick set of repeatable tests that best represent our usage. Up till now, I have relied on bonnie/iostat/dd...
Performance tuning three monster ZFS systems
Performance tuning three monster ZFS systems