Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ...

2013-11-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
> From: jason matthews [mailto:ja...@broken.net] > > does that help? Thank you, what I was looking for was: I want to connect the vmware servers to the openindiana server using SAS hardware. Beat the performance of Ether, and not as expensive (or as difficult) as Infiniband. Let the openind

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ...

2013-11-20 Thread jason matthews
On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > I also recently discovered Linux has something called SCST, a driver of > sorts, that turns some linux HBA into a scsi target. Does openindiana have > something similar? i think the way the question was phrased about an HB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ...

2013-11-20 Thread Saso Kiselkov
gt; Anybody? > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) >> [mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com] >> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:35 AM >> To: 'openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org' >> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10Gig

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ...

2013-11-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
No responses Anybody? > -Original Message- > From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) > [mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com] > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:35 AM > To: 'openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org' > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ...

2013-11-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
ZFS is great to manage backend storage in a SAN environment. So then you're likely to use 10GigE, or Infiniband as the transport... I only recently discovered SAS SFF-8088. Gives you 4x 6Gbit buses yielding 24 Gbit with very low overhead, low cost. A lot of performance for the buck. I also r