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Memory on WBcache

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Memory on WBcache

Postby nycon1 » Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:28 pm

How much memory I put on wbcahe for ha volumes?
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Re: Memory on WBcache

Postby Max (staff) » Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:54 pm

This depends on the storage size and purpose completley, can you provide some more information?
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Re: Memory on WBcache

Postby nycon1 » Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:32 pm

3,8 TB RAID5
3 volumes with 1 TB
The purpose is VM´s (ESX4.1) storage.
6 MB of memory
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Re: Memory on WBcache

Postby Max (staff) » Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:08 pm

Since you are using a RAID5 which is not the best writer - I'd recommend to spend 2 Gb on cache
this will not be an overkill, however - as soon as you fill your cache be ready for write performance degradations.


nycon1 wrote:3,8 TB RAID5
3 volumes with 1 TB
The purpose is VM´s (ESX4.1) storage.
6 MB of memory
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