On Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > What is the best mkfs.xfs configuration for this scenario? > > I'm guessing it would be best to simply use mostly, if not > completely, the defaults, due to the way iSCSI packets are > redirected on the fly to any storage node depending on load, by the > Lefthand special sauce. I'd use defaults. We've recently switched to a NetApp storage, and with all the specialities it has also use the defaults. > What about mount options? > > Should I use barriers with the P4500s or disable them? > TTBOMK the internal PCIe RAID controllers have BBWC, but the ~6GB of > RAM on the P4500 mobos isn't battery backed, but for the typical > external UPS. In this setup, from a physical hardware standpoint, > iSCSI packets will be making at least 2 ethernet switch hops between > the ESX nodes and the P4500s, with redundant links between > everything, if that's a factor at all. Turn off barriers, I'd say. We use the NetApp over NFS (to VMware stores), and turned them off. I guess that's also correct to do. As I understand them, barriers help to not loose blocks which the storage already received, so it doesn't matter how it's connected because the packets must have arrived there already. Can someone confirm? -- mit freundlichen Grüssen, Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc it-management Internet Services: Protéger http://proteger.at [gesprochen: Prot-e-schee] Tel: +43 660 / 415 6531
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