Suppose if you wanted to boot from an iscsi target, just to get vmware & a ZFS server up. And then you could pass-thru the entire local storage bus(es) to the ZFS server, and you could create other VM's whose storage is backed by the ZFS server on local disk.
One way you could do this is to buy FC or IB adapter, and I presume these have some BIOS support to configure bootable iscsi targets. But is there any such thing for 1Gb ether? For this purpose, I think it would be fine for vmware & ZFS server OSes to be physically remote via iscsi 1Gb. OTOH ... maybe PXE is the way to go. I've never done anything with PXE, but I certainly know it's pretty darn universal. I guess I'll have to look into it. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
