On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 11:25 AM, seth <ninja.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hel, > > hopefully a simple question. Our current network is NFS, with 8 frontends > that are read only to an NFS share. There is a single internal CMS server > that has write access to this share. This share is getting over worked so I > am moving it to a new backend. The original plan was just to replicate what > we have on faster disks, however reading I see that for the many small reads > we do (web frontends) on the really messed up file layout we have (some > directories have over 30k files in them) that iscsi could give us a > significant performance increase. > > (http://technomagesinc.com/papers/ip_paper.html) >
NFS for some workloads may outperform iSCSI, but the short answer is yes. You will of course need a cluster filesystem. I have an active/passive mailcluster using OCFS2 backed by a ZVOl over iSCSI _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
