On 2/18/07, Jason J. W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If by VI you are referring to VMware Infrastructure...you won't get any support from VMware if you're using the iSCSI target on Solaris as its not approved by them. Not that this is really a problem in my experience as VMware tech support is pretty terrible anyway.
Actually Virtual Iron, they have a nice system at the moment with live migration of windows guest.
Some questions: > 1. how stable is zfs? i'm tolarent to some sweat work to fix problems > but data loss is unacceptable We haven't experienced any data loss, and have had some pretty nasty things thrown at it (FC array rebooted unexpectedly).
Nice. Some other questions. 1. Has anyone run Xen hosts off zfs iscsi targets? Does offline migration work? 2. What is the recommended version of Opensolaris to use at the moment that has iscsi? Is there a stable-like branch or is it better to stay on the N-1 update? 3. Which leads to: coming from Debian, how easy is system updates? I remember with OpenBSD system updates used to be a pain. 4. I assume that since Solaris can't boot off zfs yet, that the best option is two mirrored drives for the OS, and all the other drives in the pool. 5. Is there a recommended amount of system memory for (only) serving storage? ie. is 4Gb sufficient for 10x500Gb SATA array, or will increasing this make a big difference to performance. How about CPU? Would 2 Xeon 5130s be sufficient for 20-40 iSCSI targets? 6. Is there a iscsi LUN limit? Thanks Nicholas
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