>It would be interesting to compare the performance of iSCSI vs NFS. In earlier >versions of Solaris that supported ZFS the iSCSI target wasn't particularly >performant, so NFS was better than iSCSI, but I >imagine they are quite >similar now.
>The main benefits of using iSCSI over NFS are: > * Easier to do multi-homing > * metadata (and optionally data) protection with CRCs > * ability to "fence" other initiators from having access to an image. >That last point is actually a big deal in cloud environments that need HA. >Ian It would be nice if Nexenta ads a unique serial to each lun like Netapp does. Right now I am stuck with allowing all initiators in one pool to see all the luns in that pool. Exclusion would have been good :( Interested in that comparison also (with Comstar). _______________________________________________ xen-api mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
