So far my experience has been using the iSCSI Enterprise Target: http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ as the target, and using the iSCSI initiator found in Fedora. The iSCSI enterprise target is probably the cheapest target to use for testing since it runs on any Linux system, and it would be easy to backup. It probably isn't as fast as dedicated targets (such as a netapp filer), and unless you configure RAID on the Linux system you won't have any redundancy. For best perfomance you should have a dedicated network for iSCSI traffic. I know our IT department would not be happy if we ran it over the company network. I haven't worked with any offload cards or HBAs, but the more specialized hardware you use the faster the transfer rates will be. I'm sorry I don't have any concrete numbers, but I'm sure you can find some information from searching google.
-Heath http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ On 9/24/06, Jason Tower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
anyone have experience with iscsi on linux (both initiators and targets)? trying to find out some best practices for running a backend server (iscsi target) to multiple clients (initiators). any significant pros/cons to using iscsi specific hardware HBAs? the transport will probably be 100mb ethernet to start, moving to gigabit as needed. also, what options exist for backing up my primary iscsi target to another system? are there tools that provide rsync-like capabilities but at the block instead of the file level? jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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