21. Appliance Tuning
(available on a valid Pro or Dev complete edition
on Nic, System/IP or service level (iSCSI, NFS, SMB)
Storage performance depend on your physical network, your server and storage hardware and your settings that
can be optimized to a special hardware environment or a special use case. The defaults are intended for 1Gb/s
Ethernet networks and a typical filer use. Above that a Solaris based system offer a lot of tuning options.
When 1Gb/s networks (about 100MB/s) came up many years ago, this was sufficient as storage capacity was
quite low and performance of an average internal disk and network performance was quite similar.
Now storage is in the multiple Terabyte area with a view to Petabyte. A simple backup or move of data from
one pool to another over network can last days or weeks. Local storage with the new NVMe SSDs can give a
performance of 1000MB/s or more. This is why we need faster networks like 10Gb/s Ethernet (about 1000 MB/s)
and for this we need some tuning settings to achieve full performance on your hardware or for a workload..
Napp-it Appliance Tuning Panel (napp-it Pro complete only)
Summary of Contents for ZFS Storage
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