[Chester LUG] ISCSI boxes

[Les Pritchard]

Ah yes, now I remember!

I've double checked and the community edition does offer iSCSI (and fibre if
you wish!). A quick look online I see a few results showing Nexenta is
faster than OpenFiler on the iSCSI. After all it is ZFS under the hood, so
it's professional level from the ground up.

Nexenta (and any ZFS based systems) recommend you don't use hardware raid so
you won't be missing anything by not having a card.

On 28 August 2011 19:49, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> >
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