[Chester LUG] ISCSI boxes

[Stuart Burns]

Alas there isn't as the 4 in bay drives have a SAS download cable that only
fits from cage into motherboard. There is no way to replace.

On 28 August 2011 19:38, Thomas Prophett <thomas at thomasprophett.co.uk>wrote:

> Any chance of fitting hardware based raid controller in the N36L ?
>
> On 28 August 2011 18:18, 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]
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chester mailing list
>> Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chester mailing list
> Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester
>
>


-- 
Stuart Burns
E: stuart.james.burns at gmail.com
M: [redacted]
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/chester/attachments/20110828/ba6cd4fc/attachment.html>