You might want to look into the products from a company called DataCore Software, http://datacore.com/products/prod_home.asp. I've used them and they are great stuff. They make very high performing iSCSI and FC storage controllers out of leveraging commodity hardware, like the one comment of JBOD arrays earlier in this discussion. If you were to look at things like the Storage Performance Council, http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1, or the VMTN, http://communities.vmware.com/thread/73745, you'll see they beat all the popular storage arrays on the market. Since they are block based storage virtualization devices, they work just fine with ZFS, UFS, any Open Systems FS / O.S. Their high availability is true H/A with two stacks of disk and automatic failover and failback, very cool stuff.
Ross wrote: > I don't have any statistics myself, but if you search the forum for iscsi, > there was a long thread a few months back with some performance figures. I > didn't really do that much testing myself, once I hit the iscsi bug there > wasn't any point doing much more. > > There has been some work on that recently though, and somebody here posted > steps on how to compile the iscsi initiator in order to manually reduce the > timeout which I plan to test as soon as I get enough free time at work. > > And no, you won't find my e-mail address in my profile, I try not to publish > it to cut down on spam, but if you send a mail to my username at > googlemail.com it'll get through. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
