Hello Richard, Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 6:39:49 PM, you wrote:
RE> Archie Cowan wrote: >> I just stumbled upon this thread somehow and thought I'd share my zfs over >> iscsi experience. >> >> We recently abandoned a similar configuration with several pairs of x4500s >> exporting zvols as iscsi targets and mirroring them for "high availability" >> with T5220s. >> RE> In general, such tasks would be better served by T5220 (or the new T5440 :-) RE> and J4500s. This would change the data paths from: RE> client --<net>-- T5220 --<net>-- X4500 --<SATA>-- disks RE> to RE> client --<net>-- T5440 --<SAS>-- disks RE> With the J4500 you get the same storage density as the X4500, but RE> with SAS access (some would call this direct access). You will have RE> much better bandwidth and lower latency between the T5440 (server) RE> and disks while still having the ability to multi-head the disks. The RE> J4500 is a relatively new system, so this option may not have been RE> available at the time Archie was building his system. Has MPxIO for J4500 (SAS) been backported to S10 yet? -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
