J.P. King wrote: > Someone suggested an idea, which the more I think about the less insane it > sounds. I thought I would ask the assembled masses to see if anyone had > tried anything like this, and how successful they had been. > > I'll start with the simplest variant of the solution, but there are > potentially subtleties which could be applied. > > Take 3 machines, for the same of argument 2 x4500s and an x4100 as a head > unit. > > Export the storage from each of the x4500s by making it an iSCSI target. > Import the storage onto the x4100 making it an iSCSI initiator. > > Using ZFS (and I assume this is preferable to Solaris Volume manager) > set up a mirror between the two sets of storage.
Remember to also deploy IPsec to protect the iSCSI traffic. You want at least IPsec with AH to get integrity protection on the wire and for cross site you likely what ESP+Auth as well. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
