Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think OpenSolaris still has severe timeout issues when iSCSI LUNs disappear.ZFS also seems to choke up sometimes when a pool becomes degraded, but I'm not sure if that's because it's waiting for the iSCSI to timeout.
William From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of milosz Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 12:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [storage-discuss] solaris for (sort of) centralized management of tiered storage hi all, i have a heterogenous assortment of lower-end second-tier storage gear (aoe, poorly-performing iscsi, sas das) that i need to serve out to windows clients and it occurred to me that i could hook it all into a first-tier solaris app san and farm it out via zfs and comstar/iscsi. is anyone doing this already? what do people think of this in general in terms of caveats/feasibility/roi? single point of failure comes to mind, but it's all second-tier stuff. milosz
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