I was just kind of curious. Will there be any performance difference when we run bonnie on a single disk vs a mirror disks array?
Mirror Disk Array Performance
Single Disk
Dun really see a any performance bonus using a mirrored disk array over a single disk using bonnie…
Well, so now that I have aggregated the links for my ESXI, guess it is time to aggregate my links for my SAN box. However, I face the same problem as:
http://www.nexentastor.org/boards/1/topics/874
I guess I will need to follow their procedure. Looks easy enough to understand but really wish someone would have provided the commands to type… especially for a solaris newbie like me.
After a long and painful struggle….
Well. so how do we do it. Basically, I just login as root from the console, and started meddling with:
1. Unconfigure Network Interfaces by typing setup network and following through the text wizard.
2. Setup Link Aggregation by typing setup network and following the wizard.
3. Type setup appliance init.
I was kind of confused in the beginning about this nmc thing. It did not look familiar at all… until I read:
http://serverfault.com/questions/237975/how-do-i-login-to-nexenta-in-expert-mode
Ah… so the nmc is some kind of supposedly user friendly shell. No wonder all my ifconfigs were suddenly not working… 
Commands to enter Expert Mode
option expert_mode=1
!bash
Just when I thought I had done enough evaluation on NAS/SAN… I just chanced on another one – Nexenta. Lots of reading ahead of me…
which one shall it be?
