Larry Smith Jr.

Doing my thang with #automation #DevOps and cloudy things! Providing hopefully valuable content for others to consume easily and also learn from.

More Nexenta testing coming soon

February 9, 2013 less than 1 minute read

I have two Intel 520 120GB SSD drives on the way this week to start doing some additional testing with ZIL/SLOG and L2ARC and using Nexenta as my datastores for vSphere. So stay tuned.

Testing results are in and they are located here.

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