Monthly Archives: October 2012

This will be my last update for a while, but I did some more shuffling of the database files among the various PCIE SSD logical drives (HP I/O Accelerators which are HP-OEM Fusion-Io cards). See earlier post for info about … Continue reading →

A couple of clarifications – including potential for much greater backup throughput beyond 3 GB/s up to 9 GB/s for this hardware: 1) Contrary to the video, 10 GbE is not the fastest practical Ethernet for server-to-server communications. 40 GbE … Continue reading →

I should have said that 40 Gbe and 100 Gbe are not widely implemented rather than not available  – they are available. But, even 100 GbE is only adequate for 12 GBPS – and with Gen 3 PCIE SSD reading … Continue reading →

With the addition of another SATA SSD as well as another SLC Duo to serve as the target destination, the same SQL database which now has a total of 233 GB of used space was backed up in less than … Continue reading →

Follow-up from last post on 2.0 GBPS backup throughput – was able to update the firmware painlessly for the non-functional card from a Win 7 X64 machine so that it can now be updated on the HP Server to the … Continue reading →

I managed to squeeze 2 GBps (2192.207 MBps to be exact) out on 12 cores using a HP Server DL370 with 12 x 2.66 (12 MB Cache) cores, 108GB RAM, and 7 Fusion-IO Cards backing up from a database stored … Continue reading →

I had to turn off backup compression to do it because the 12 cores get maxed out with compression when getting above 1 GBps, but I managed to get 2GBps on my HP 12U server with 108GB of RAM with … Continue reading →

Follow-up from last post on 2.0 GBPS backup throughput – was able to update the firmware painlessly for the non-functional card from a Win 7 X64 machine so that it can now be updated on the HP Server to the … Continue reading →