On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:14:10AM +0000, Bruno Sousa wrote:
>    Hi all,
> 
>    Let me tell you all that the MC/S *does* make a difference...I had a
>    windows fileserver using an ISCSI connection to a host running snv_134
>    with an average speed of 20-35 mb/s...After the upgrade to snv_151a
>    (Solaris 11 express) this same fileserver got a performance boost and now
>    has an average speed of 55-60mb/s.
> 
>    Not double performance, but WAY better , specially if we consider that
>    this performance boost was purely software based :)
> 

Did you verify you're using more connections after the update? 
Or was is just *other* COMSTAR (and/or kernel) updates making the difference..

-- Pasi


> 
> 
>    Nice...nice job COMSTAR guys!
> 
> 
> 
>    Bruno
> 
> 
> 
>    On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:49:59 -0500, Jim Dunham <james.dun...@oracle.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On Nov 16, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Ross Walker wrote:
> 
>        On Nov 16, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Tim Cook <[1]...@cook.ms> wrote:
> 
>          AFAIK, esx/i doesn't support L4 hash, so that's a non-starter.
> 
>        For iSCSI one just needs to have a second (third or fourth...) iSCSI
>        session on a different IP to the target and run mpio/mpxio/mpath
>        whatever your OS calls multi-pathing.
> 
>      MC/S (Multiple Connections per Sessions) support was added to the iSCSI
>      Target in COMSTAR, now available in Oracle Solaris 11 Express.
>      - Jim
> 
>        -Ross
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