Re: iscsi ifaces / multipathing / etc

2010-02-22 Thread Or Gerlitz
Mike Christie wrote: >> 2. I wasn't sure if there is and if yes what is the transport role in >> detecting session failure. > It varies from transport to transport. > For iscsi_tcp we do not really have a nice way to figure out if the > someone just tripped over a cable so that is where the nop c

Re: Over one million IOPS using software iSCSI and 10 Gbit Ethernet

2010-02-22 Thread ByteEnable
This was achieved by using cache. On Jan 28, 6:36 am, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello list, > > Please check these news > items:http://blog.fosketts.net/2010/01/14/microsoft-intel-push-million-iscs...http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/server/blog/2010/01...http://www.infostor.com/i

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-02-22 Thread ByteEnable
Did you ever get this to work per your satisfaction? On Jan 20, 12:46 pm, "Ciprian Vizitiu (GBIF)" wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody here please confirm whether iSCSI offload via bnx2i, on RHEL > 5.4, with 5709 Broadcoms towards EQLs 6000 series works or not? Despite > countless attempts (and latest E

Re: iscsi ifaces / multipathing / etc

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Christie
On 02/22/2010 09:32 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote: Mike Christie wrote: 2. I wasn't sure if there is and if yes what is the transport role in detecting session failure. It varies from transport to transport. For iscsi_tcp we do not really have a nice way to figure out if the someone just tripped over

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Christie
On 02/22/2010 04:08 PM, ByteEnable wrote: Did you ever get this to work per your satisfaction? Are you guys only having trouble with bnx2i and Equallogic targets? On Jan 20, 12:46 pm, "Ciprian Vizitiu (GBIF)" wrote: Hi, Can anybody here please confirm whether iSCSI offload via bnx2i, on

Re: Can anybody confirm that bnx2i on 5709 cards works with Equallogic 6xxx?

2010-02-22 Thread Hoot, Joseph
We turn our TOE off via ethtool because we've had questionable issues and that was a first stab at troubleshooting. We have both EQL 5000 and 6000 series. I'm not sure if it was definitely the problem or not, but we just default to turning it off in rc.local. On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Mik

Re: iscsi ifaces / multipathing / etc

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Christie
On 02/22/2010 09:15 PM, Mike Christie wrote: So is there anything in there that is static and can be used to identify the port? With srp you can bind a target to a rnic port, right (from srp_add_port it looks like the add_target file is on the srp classes rnic port object)? In userspace for