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Suggestions for iSCSI storage
Not 100% sure what configuration I’m looking for at this time but just wanted to see what’s out there as far as iSCSI Raids go. So far I’ve been looking at some of the Sans Digital drives.
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Hi Devin,
What kind of network are you looking to run the storage on?
There are certain types of setups that can be recommended depending on what your try to ultimately achieve.
Matt Geier
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Right now just looking at Link Aggregated Ethernet. Eventually 10GigE when we fully move to HD and prices on switches come down.
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you want iSCSI – no problem baby.
You can use anything now. Meaning your Mac Pro and some storage array (who cares whose drive array it is). Run the absolutely amazing Studio Network Solutions Globalsan Xtarget, and you have an iSCSI target for clients that have an iSCSI initiator on them. Instant iSCSI. SNS sells the iSCSI initiator for the clients too, and then you can run ANY SAN software (like XSAN, MetaSAN, SANmp) to manage your system.
Is that an easy answer or WHAT ! (and you can use 10gig right now, with any of the cards on the market).
Bob Zelin
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Depending on your timeframe you might want to wait another quarter. It looks to me like FCoE is starting to heat up. It doesn’t really have a performance advantage over iSCSI right now, but the offloads are there and the CPU utilization is lower. We got some amazing IOP counts with FCoE and our linux target code.
As I understand it, FCoE targets are supposed to be arriving in Q3/4. You can also get an FCOE switch and plug in existing FC targets and it’ll convert them to FCoE.
Steve
Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications
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