Measuring ZFS configuration differences

[Dan Langille]

On Oct 12, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> 
> Following up on the discussions during EuroBSDCon 2015 (Stockholm) during the FreeBSD Developer
> Summit regarding various ZFS configuration settings, I write to start our implementation phase now that some
> usual suspects have joined the list.
> 
>  re https://wiki.freebsd.org/201510DevSummit/Performance
> 
> I think the first order of business is granting access rights to the server (varm) in question:
> 
>  http://dan.langille.org/2015/07/19/varm/
> 
> During the workshop, mention was made of serial access.  I can arrange that.
> 
> The server has IPMI, however, my first thought:
> 
> 1 - connect a USB-serial cable to varm & link that to another server in my rack.

Marcelo: At EuroBSDCon, was it you who mentioned a particular configuration for the test machine which made
it easy to configure and run tests?  Was it PXE booting or something?

> 2 - create a jail in that server and give it access to that serial connection
> 3 - redirect incoming port XYZ to that jail via a public-key-only ssh connection
> 4 - give people access
> 
> Any suggestions?

— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/