Hi, I'm looking to build a basic SAN to use as iSCSI storage for a VMware environment. I was going to use the following equipment:
- Sunfire x4150 server, 12 Gb RAM, 1 x Quad Core CPU - OpenSolaris 2009.06 with Comstar iSCSI Target - 4 x 1Gb Ethernet (Jumbo Frames, Nagle's algorithm disabled) - 2 x 146 10K SAS drives in a mirror as boot device - 6 x 500Gb Seagate Momentus XT 7.2K SATA drives in RAIDZ2 (SSD Hybrids designed Laptop) - Adaptec 256Mb STK SAS/SATA RAID controller - Possibly a PCI express SLC SSD for cache Does anybody have any recommendations on the best way to setup the networking for connection to VMware? I was thinking of using LACP, but I believe VMware needs to use multipathing. What sort of read/write performance should I expect to get? How do you think this would this compare against a low end iSCSI SAN (HP MSA, or Dell MD3220i)? Any other recommendations? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Jared -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
