-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/2010 11:39 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: > On 11/12/2010 9:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> >> Since combining ZFS storage backend, via nfs or iscsi, with ESXi >> heads, I'm in love. But for one thing. The interconnect between the >> head & storage. >> >> 1G Ether is so cheap, but not as fast as desired. 10G ether is fast >> enough, but it's overkill and why is it so bloody expensive? Why is >> there nothing in between? Is there something in between? Is there a >> better option? I mean ... sata is cheap, and it's 3g or 6g, but it's >> not suitable for this purpose. But the point remains, there isn't a >> fundamental limitation that **requires** 10G to be expensive, or >> **requires** a leap directly from 1G to 10G. I would very much like >> to find a solution which is a good fit... to attach ZFS storage to >> vmware. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> > So, this will likely be outside your comfort zone, but have you thought > about infiniband? It's still cheaper per port than 10GE, and you get > TONS of bandwidth at low latency. It also comes native with IP over IB > if you want to do that (L2) or you can go to the native IB storage > protocols as some have done (ISER/SRP), but that's even more outside.
ESXi has pretty limited IB support, and even more limited support for IPoIB. I don't think Mellanox has even come out with an OFED stack for ESXi 4.1. - -- - -- - -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) - -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzdfVAACgkQsc4yyULgN4YMyQCgqMw4rGiLRvZMB3DlI49Hxc/V WS4AoJKgpk83v9f+8TmMK0ccZUMBL3ys =3KqN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
