[CentOS-virt] KVM: where are the directions?

Benjamin Franz jfranz at freerun.com
Mon Nov 15 10:09:17 EST 2010


On 11/14/2010 05:25 PM, compdoc wrote:
> Unless you have old cards you have to retain, PCI-x isn't useful anymore.
> Too slow.
>

Depends on what you consider 'too slow'. I just benchmarked an 8 drive 
software RAID6 (8 x 1.5 TByte Seagate drives) on a PCI-X card (Areca 
ARC-1120 configured for JBOD operation) at 196 megabytes/second 
sustained sequential write and 420 megabytes/second sustained sequential 
read with bonnie++ on a Supermicro PDSMi board.

Just how fast do you need?

-- 
Benjamin Franz



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