[Chester LUG] ISCSI boxes

Les Pritchard les.pritchard at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 18:47:14 UTC 2011


What was the reason you're not able to use Nexenta? You did mention
something but I can't remember!

Would be interesting to see how it would compare in speed.
On Aug 28, 2011 6:18 PM, "Stuart Burns" <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> After ramming my little Proliant N36L full of Disks (8 TB total) and using
> it as an ISCSI target on Openfiler, the performance when using SW raid is
> absolutely appalling. My CPU load is 4.5+ (when running 3 vms with little
> traffic)
>
> I suspect the 2 * 1.3 GHz CPUs are just not up to the job.
>
> Therefore, I am wondering, either new box with Openfler or an ISCSI drobo
or
> similar. Anyone got any recommendations.
>
> Stu
>
>
> --
> Stuart Burns
> E: stuart.james.burns at gmail.com
> M: [redacted]
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