Apologies if this is a dupe - I had some issues with replies on the forum so i've subscribed to the list now directly! If you replied before, can you forward your response onto me if you don't wish to duplicate here. -thanks!
-- Hi all, This is my first post and i'm new to Solaris (not completely, but effectively). I'm planning my new iSCSI SAN and i'm evaluating various products. Right now i'm looking at :- - OpenFiler on generic x86 hardware and a bunch of sata disks - FreeNAS, as above and now.. - OpenSolaris+ZFS+generic hw+bunch of sata disks Basically my requirement is to throw 10 SATA disks in a generic box and present the LUNs via iSCSI primarily to a vmware esxi host. I haven't sorted the motherboard out yet nor the disk controllers, so any recommendations would be appreciated. I will check the HCL though! This is just for home, so no server-grade stuff! As far as performance goes, I appreciate i'm not going to get the same as I have at the moment with my file server and its DAS (300-500MB/sec), but I am wondering if it's possible to trunk iSCSI interfaces (normal NICs) on Solaris? I'm thinking that 2gbps will be adequate. I'm a little confused though. There appears to be an iSCSI target project (albeit notes last updated last year I think), and the COMSTAR project (which i'm not sure if iSCSI support is ready(?) yet).. Should I be using iSCSI target support in Nevada, or COMSTAR? Any thoughts/comments/comparisons/warnings appreciated... :) _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
