Sun's x8440 server tops VMWare benchmark for 4 socket dual core server! The results can be found at
Wednesday Feb 13, 2008
Monday Jul 23, 2007
An interesting blog on how to improve ZFS performance by having the ZIL on NVRAM or SSD.
http://blogs.sun.com/perrin/entry/slog_blog_or_blogging_on
This is an ingenious idea that speeds up the critical component of ZFS - ZFS Intent Logs. The performance benchmarks look very impressive and is worth checking out!
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