I had considered that. No opposition to iscsi, but my costs would be higher then say, a San Digital or Mediasonic esata enclosure. But may be the way I go
-----Original Message----- From: "Julian Zottl" <[email protected]> Sent: 8/31/2013 8:21 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] Whitebox ESXI Esata Question If you have a spare box around and a couple of like drives, you could install nexenta or freenas and use ZFS's built in raid. It performs remarkably well and you would be able to use/learn iscsi :) when you need more speed, you can buy ssd's and front them as read and write caches for the raid. Julian Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial.... But not in that ishort bus kind of way... On Aug 31, 2013, at 8:48 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Ok, here's something I've never tried but have been thinking about testing.. > > Have a whitebox ESXI that just runs basic test services for me.. Xeon > E3-1275v2 processor, 32G, etc. Anyway, storage right now is just a single > SATA 2TB Re4. No desperate data on there so I just acronis it off weekly. > > But I'm debating this now.. getting a VMWare certified RAID controller is a > sucky proposition in re-opening this box where it's at. I've seen people > report mixed results using an eSATA RAID device - which should be completely > transparent to the OS.. > > Anyone try or thoughts? I figured I might grab a mid-level RAID-1 eSATA > device and give it a go..
