Hi all, Have started playing with OpenSolaris 8.11 which I downloaded recently and have had some success. My goal is to build an iSCSI target for a number of other servers/users. So far, I have managed to set up a basic zfs iscsi share that my Mac can access, format and use which is great.
There are a few things I need to ask before I go much further: 1) The tutorials I have found so far either do not mention iscsi target server software installation or gloss over it and I am trying to guess what I need to install. In my searching I have seen people refer to Express editions, implying they are more complete in terms of file server stuff like iscsi being prebundled. Is this the case? Basically - should I stop now with the standard OpenSolaris 8.11 and move over to Express or whatever or is everything I need available for OpenSolaris 8.11? 2) What am I doing wrong? I have now tried this 8.11 setup on two legacy servers I have available but both times the iscsi transfer rates using my Mac as an initiator are very very slow (1 or 2 MB per sec max). Are there any guides, resources or suggestions that could help me optimise the setup/speed. Both servers are using a Sil3124 card with two SATA 7200rpm drives striped together using zfs. The first server I tried was a Dell PowerEdge 650 (2GHz-ish with 1GB RAM) but have now moved to a Dell PowerEdge 1800 (3GHz Xeon with 4.5GB RAM). OS for both installed on a third, separate drive. As you can tell I am very new to this so if I have not included enough info please let me know. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
