Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-18 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-18 00:14, Richard Elling wrote: LACP is link aggregation control protocol, which can be optionally used to help manage Ethernet link aggregations (IEEE 802.3ad, later 802.1AX). The IEEE standard is for link aggregation, which is why they are named aggregations in illumos/Solaris OSes.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Elling
On Nov 16, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On 2012-11-17 00:46, Roel_D wrote: How about teaming? Is it supported under OI? My memory serves me not worse than google: teaming is one of the umbrella terms to describe what is implemented by LACP - a means of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Florian
Hi, I don't know where is your problem? You don't know our network infrastructure. It is not so easy to have two redundant switches, no it is even not possible. It would be nice, if we can have two redundant switches, but this was not my question! Sorry, if my first answer was rude to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, November 16, 2012 07:05 PM, Florian wrote: Hi, I don't know where is your problem? You don't know our network infrastructure. It is not so easy to have two redundant switches, no it is even not possible. It would be nice, if we can have two redundant switches, but this was not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Florian
Hi, I know, that you are right! Here are some background informations: We have an IBM BladeCenter E with two Cisco switches. Switch one is for the outside network traffic and switch two is for the storage network. There is no special configuration for the second switch, only a configured

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Nov 16, 2012, at 9:35, Florian flor...@acw.at wrote: Hi, The Problem with the BladeCenter is, that there are only two network ports an all blades, for two switches. It is possible put put two more switches in it, but have to buy than extra network cards for all blades. Maybe, I can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-16 13:12, Brian Hechinger wrote: On Nov 16, 2012, at 9:35, Florian flor...@acw.at wrote: Hi, The Problem with the BladeCenter is, that there are only two network ports an all blades, for two switches. It is possible put put two more switches in it, but have to buy than extra

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:33, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On 2012-11-16 13:12, Brian Hechinger wrote: Have you considered vlan trunking? As he said, they have an external and an internal network segment. It might be an architectural or even a political/compliance requirement to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Roel_D
How about teaming? Is it supported under OI? Kind regards, The out-side Op 16 nov. 2012 om 17:57 heeft Brian Hechinger wo...@4amlunch.net het volgende geschreven: On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:33, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: On 2012-11-16 13:12, Brian Hechinger wrote: Have you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-17 00:46, Roel_D wrote: How about teaming? Is it supported under OI? My memory serves me not worse than google: teaming is one of the umbrella terms to describe what is implemented by LACP - a means of representing several hardware links as one logical NIC with increased

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Stapleton
FYI, there is a setting that controls how Solaris balances the frames across the links in the aggregation. IP, MAC or round robbin. Mike On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 01:19 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2012-11-17 00:46, Roel_D wrote: How about teaming? Is it supported under OI? My memory

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-17 02:03, Michael Stapleton wrote: FYI, there is a setting that controls how Solaris balances the frames across the links in the aggregation. IP, MAC or round robbin. Network nodes (like switches) on the other side of the cable are part of the problem. It is them that decide how to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-15 Thread Florian
Hello, has someone experience with Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes from two OI servers? I tested this on a virtual machine, but it would be great, if I can get some experience with such a combination! Will this work without problems? The Linux Server is connected

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-15 Thread Jorge Palma
raid1 at the OS level, but SPOF on network level. El 15/11/2012 08:38, Florian flor...@acw.at escribió: Hello, has someone experience with Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes from two OI servers? I tested this on a virtual machine, but it would be great, if I can get

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-15 Thread Florian
Am 15.11.2012 13:15, schrieb Jorge Palma: raid1 at the OS level, but SPOF on network level. This is no Problem, I change a switch in 5 minutes, but the Server takes much longer. This was not my question! Thanks for the not helping help!!! El 15/11/2012 08:38, Florian flor...@acw.at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-15 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/15/2012 12:38 PM, Florian wrote: Hello, has someone experience with Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes from two OI servers? I tested this on a virtual machine, but it would be great, if I can get some experience with such a combination! Will this work without

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-15 Thread Roel_D
Performance will be higher or lower then 125MB/s. It depends on the filesizes and file-type since ISCSI does some buffer and compression. I had 125MB/s for some files over a 2Mb/s SDSL line. But that declined to 30Kb/s when the buffers ran full. Kind regards, The out-side Op 15 nov. 2012

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-15 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 08:23 PM, Florian wrote: Am 15.11.2012 13:15, schrieb Jorge Palma: raid1 at the OS level, but SPOF on network level. This is no Problem, I change a switch in 5 minutes, but the Server takes much longer. This was not my question! Thanks for the not helping

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-15 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, November 16, 2012 11:36 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: If the targets are mirrored via ZFS and COMSTAR, why would the Linux host require RAID? If it's using iSCSI anyway, wouldn't the Linux volume management just needlessly redundantize the data, that ZFS is mirroring already? Or do I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-15 Thread Andrej Javoršek
@Alex Smith: Single target is SPOF (Sigle point of failure)! And sometimes is necessary to reboot target without bringing down all datacenter. Regards Andrej On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.comwrote: If the targets are mirrored via ZFS and COMSTAR, why