[Chester LUG] ISCSI boxes

[Stuart Burns]

I didn't think Nexenta did ISCSI.

This box has 8 GB ram also, so I think just cpu is letting it down. Shame
really. Speeds are terrible.

On 28 August 2011 19:47, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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