iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?
At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. I was wondering if FreeBSD could provide this on COTS hardware, but my googling hasn't been successful. From my reading of this list over the past couple of years, it seems that both parts of the solution - iSCSI support and large disk support - are still problematic, but I'd like to hear more informed opinion, as the potential cost savings is quite large. Anyone have recent-ish experience putting something like this together? Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?
On 10/10/07, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. I was wondering if FreeBSD could provide this on COTS hardware, but my googling hasn't been successful. From my reading of this list over the past couple of years, it seems that both parts of the solution - iSCSI support and large disk support - are still problematic, but I'd like to hear more informed opinion, as the potential cost savings is quite large. Anyone have recent-ish experience putting something like this together? IMHO opinion I do not think FreeBSD is there...yet. ZFS is addressing many of the enterprise filesystem features that would be needed to implement something on this scale, and there is the iSCSI target from NetBSD available in the ports tree. I think 7-RELEASE is going to be a solid foundation for building solutions like this - but in the mean time it may be worth considering OpenSolaris if are considering going the COTS path. or - you can take a look at a company like Isilon Systems (http://www.isilon.com/) which builds very scalable filers based on FreeBSD. I have beta tested their iSCSI implementation and it does look good. HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?
On 10/10/07, pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/07, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. I was wondering if FreeBSD could provide this on COTS hardware, but my googling hasn't been successful. From my reading of this list over the past couple of years, it seems that both parts of the solution - iSCSI support and large disk support - are still problematic, but I'd like to hear more informed opinion, as the potential cost savings is quite large. Anyone have recent-ish experience putting something like this together? IMHO opinion I do not think FreeBSD is there...yet. ZFS is addressing many of the enterprise filesystem features that would be needed to implement something on this scale, and there is the iSCSI target from NetBSD available in the ports tree. I think 7-RELEASE is going to be a solid foundation for building solutions like this - but in the mean time it may be worth considering OpenSolaris if are considering going the COTS path. or - you can take a look at a company like Isilon Systems (http://www.isilon.com/) which builds very scalable filers based on FreeBSD. I have beta tested their iSCSI implementation and it does look good. HTH -pete Thanks - being a noob at this particular part of IT, I appreciate the feedback. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
