ZFS + iSCSI architecture

2013-02-19 Thread b...@todoo.biz
the server using iSCSI (at least this is what I initially planned). 4. Mount part of their filesystem using data stored on the SAN (like /usr/local/ or other parts of the system). The server accessing the data will be of two types : 1. 2 x Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS 2. 4 x FreeBSD (mainly 8

Re: ZFS + iSCSI architecture

2013-02-19 Thread Dmitry Sarkisov
and of clients to support this file system (including snapshots) 3. Access the server using iSCSI (at least this is what I initially planned). 4. Mount part of their filesystem using data stored on the SAN (like /usr/local/ or other parts of the system). The server accessing the data

Re: ZFS + iSCSI architecture

2013-02-19 Thread Fleuriot Damien
to use ZFS and of clients to support this file system (including snapshots) 3. Access the server using iSCSI (at least this is what I initially planned). 4. Mount part of their filesystem using data stored on the SAN (like /usr/local/ or other parts of the system). The server

Re: ZFS + iSCSI architecture

2013-02-19 Thread iamatt
that was to grant 5 or six critical servers access to the NAS so that they can take advantage of : 1. space available on the NAS 2. ability of the NAS to use ZFS and of clients to support this file system (including snapshots) 3. Access the server using iSCSI (at least this is what I

Re: ZFS + iSCSI architecture

2013-02-19 Thread b...@todoo.biz
of : 1. space available on the NAS 2. ability of the NAS to use ZFS and of clients to support this file system (including snapshots) 3. Access the server using iSCSI (at least this is what I initially planned). 4. Mount part of their filesystem using data stored on the SAN (like

Re: Freebsd iSCSI client ?

2012-10-30 Thread dweimer
and using iSCSI over gigabit Ethernet so I can build zfs volumes from the iSCSI disks. Poking around, the reports say that FreeBSD is a pretty good iSCSI server in such forms as freenas, but a lousy iSCSI client, with the first problem being that that kludges are required to get iSCSI volumes

Re: Freebsd iSCSI client ?

2012-10-29 Thread dweimer
On 2012-10-29 08:29, John Levine wrote: I'm trying to set up a freebsd image under vmware, but I need more disk space than the vmware hosts offer. So the guy who runs the hosting place suggests getting a 1U disk server and using iSCSI over gigabit Ethernet so I can build zfs volumes from

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-21 Thread Bill Tillman
- Original Message - From: Paul Wootton cas...@caspersworld.co.uk To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:08 AM Subject: Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI? On 09/20/12 01:42, Bill Tillman wrote: Interesting project you've got

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 19/09/2012 06:53, dweimer wrote: I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get a system booting with no local disk using iSCSI running from my FreeNAS box. I got started, by first booting a 9.1-RC1 CD, into live CD, created a /tmp/iscsi.conf used kldload to load

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-20 Thread dweimer
On 2012-09-20 09:42, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 19/09/2012 06:53, dweimer wrote: I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get a system booting with no local disk using iSCSI running from my FreeNAS box. I got started, by first booting a 9.1-RC1 CD, into live CD

Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-19 Thread dweimer
I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get a system booting with no local disk using iSCSI running from my FreeNAS box. I got started, by first booting a 9.1-RC1 CD, into live CD, created a /tmp/iscsi.conf used kldload to load the iscsi initiator, connected

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-19 Thread Bill Tillman
- Original Message - From: dweimer dwei...@dweimer.net To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:53 AM Subject: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI? I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get

Pointers to debugging slow iSCSI initiator performance

2011-06-21 Thread Viren R. Shah
Folks I have a FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE system that I'm connecting via iSCSI to a Compellent SAN. The iscsi-initiator works fine but is very slow and given to periodic (very short) hangs. The issue is that we have subversion on it and it takes a long time to checkout some of our repos. Any

RE: 3par iscsi with 8.2?

2011-04-19 Thread timp
iqn = iqn.2010-09.com.enovafinancial:01:nut.postgres01 authmethod = none I think you don't need such lines in iscsi.conf Login session: postgres01# iscontrol -v -n path1 After that what do you see in 'dmesg -a'? And do you have logs at the iscsi target (3par)? -- View this message

RE: 3par iscsi with 8.2?

2011-04-18 Thread Ragona, Derek
Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of timp Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 1:25 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3par iscsi with 8.2? No, I`m not. But have some experience in iscsi. What kind

Re: 3par iscsi with 8.2?

2011-04-16 Thread timp
No, I`m not. But have some experience in iscsi. What kind of trouble do you have? -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/3par-iscsi-with-8-2-tp4306095p4307912.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com

3par iscsi with 8.2?

2011-04-15 Thread Ragona, Derek
Is anyone connecting to 3par SAN units using iscsi with release 8.2? I am trying to do this, and having some trouble. -Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

FreeBSD 8.1 iSCSI CHAP with header and data digest

2011-02-24 Thread Dean E. Weimer
I am trying to connect my FreeBSD 8.1 system to a FreeNAS server hosting an iSCSI drive. I can successfully connect if I disable header and data digests, but can't seem to get a connection using header and data digests to succeed. I know the FreeNAS side is correct because I was able

FreeBSD-8.1 on iscsi - Help Needed

2010-12-17 Thread Nihir Parikh
I am trying to install FreeBSD-8.1 on a iscsi target disk but when I start installation it complains about No Hard disk found. I have iscsi enabled network adapter and I can configure the iscsi disk in the network adapter's iscsi ROM. When the system boots up from FreeBSD installation CD, I go

zfs performance issues with iscsi (istgt)

2010-11-08 Thread DJ
After scratching my head for a few weeks, I've decided to ask for some help. First, I've got two machines connected by gigabit ethernet, network performance is not a problem as I am able to substantially saturate the wire when not using iscsi [say iperf] or ftp. Both systems are 8.1-RELENG

Re: zfs performance issues with iscsi (istgt)

2010-11-08 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 08.11.2010 09:13, DJ wrote: After scratching my head for a few weeks, I've decided to ask for some help. First, I've got two machines connected by gigabit ethernet, network performance is not a problem as I am able to substantially saturate the wire when not using iscsi [say iperf

6.4 Netapp iscsi

2010-06-14 Thread Alex Huth
Hello! I have to implement Bacula using NetApp iscsi. I have already searched for a while, but found only solutions for 7.x and higher or FreeBSD as a iscsi target. How can i do that on 6.4? Greetings Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

FreeBSD/iSCSI intiator into EMC Clarion target

2009-07-08 Thread Len Conrad
work into a FreeBSD/iscsi-target: # iscontrol -c /etc/iscsi.conf -n target0 iscontrol[817]: running iscontrol[817]: (pass3:iscsi0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 0 iscontrol[817]: cam_open_btl: no passthrough device found at 2:0:1 iscontrol[817]: cam_open_btl: no passthrough device found at 2:0:2

7.2-STABLE and iSCSI

2009-06-08 Thread FRLinux
Hello, I am currently using a 7.2-STABLE with iSCSI enabled in the kernel. I have tried to enable a file system which is 2.4TB in size (this is on an amd64 architecture). I have followed different documentations I found and can export an iSCSI target fine and initiate the iSCSI drive either

Re: iSCSI initiator lockups

2009-03-11 Thread Danny Braniss
--VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In our last exciting episode, Danny Braniss (da...@cs.huji.ac.il) said: I guess it's time to fix this. danny Thank you very much for the pointer

Re: iSCSI initiator lockups

2009-03-10 Thread Danny Braniss
--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm running into some odd headaches regarding what looks like iSCSI initiat= ors going to sleep for approximately 30 seconds before returning to life

iSCSI initiator lockups

2009-03-09 Thread Jason T. Nelson
I'm running into some odd headaches regarding what looks like iSCSI initiators going to sleep for approximately 30 seconds before returning to life and pumping a ton of information back to the target. While this is happening, system load climbs up alarmingly fast. Looking at tcpdumps in Wireshark

FreeBSD + Samba + OpenLDAP + iSCSI +Netapp , anyone ?

2009-03-06 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello All is in the subject :-) Does anyone has setup such server configuration A server running FreeBSD and supporting Samba server software with OpenLDAP backend and using iSCSI as disk access protocol to a Netapp filer for Samba volumes ? I plan this so passed experiences are welcome

Re: FreeBSD + Samba + OpenLDAP + iSCSI +Netapp , anyone ?

2009-03-06 Thread Tim Judd
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: Hello All is in the subject :-) Does anyone has setup such server configuration A server running FreeBSD and supporting Samba server software with OpenLDAP backend and using iSCSI as disk access protocol to a Netapp

Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... Any other ideas? Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... Any other ideas? for linear transfer:dd of course iSCSI disk will always be slower ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... bonnie++ is ok too. Any other ideas? Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
not filesystem? he asked about disk benchmarked not disk+filesystem Make sure you know what you're benchmarking - for example if the iSCSI drive (target) is hosted as a file in a regular file system, it will be overly (and dangerously) cached on the server

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: My first thought was about iozone... iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis on a different aspect of the system. I think bonnie++ will be the simplest in your case. can bonnie++

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-25 Thread Frank Bonnet
Ivan Voras wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/11/26 Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well good news ! it seems to be integrated inside operating system isn't it ? Yes, the patch is for -CURRENT (which means it will be present in the 8.0 release; bug the developers if you need it earlier).

ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with iSCSI on FreeBSD. There is a patch available which fixes the issue, but I felt you might want to know about

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with iSCSI on FreeBSD. There is a patch available which fixes the issue, but I felt you

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with iSCSI on FreeBSD. There is a patch available which fixes the issue, but I felt you

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems with iSCSI on FreeBSD

Re: ZFS over iSCSI anyone ?

2008-11-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:44:23PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does anyone has tried to use ZFS over iSCSI ? Another FreeBSD user recently brought to my attention problems

iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜
Hi, My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t support iSCSI? BR, Jeff

Re: iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜 wrote: Hi, My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t

Re: iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
can't be iSCSI client, but iscsi-target is userlevel app, you may run on any FreeBSD (most probably under any unix). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Chris St Denis
Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜 wrote: Hi, My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t

Re: open-iscsi ?

2008-10-22 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does open-iscsi has been ported to FreeBSD at 7.x ? it doesn't seems to be at 6.x Seems to be a linux specific implementation of iscsi and gnu licenced so no we dont. However we have iscsi_initiator(4) in 7.x see the man pages for details. For a iscsi target

Re: open-iscsi ?

2008-10-22 Thread Frank Bonnet
Vincent Hoffman wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Does open-iscsi has been ported to FreeBSD at 7.x ? it doesn't seems to be at 6.x Seems to be a linux specific implementation of iscsi and gnu licenced so no we dont. However we have iscsi_initiator(4) in 7.x see the man pages for details

open-iscsi ?

2008-10-21 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Does open-iscsi has been ported to FreeBSD at 7.x ? it doesn't seems to be at 6.x thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD and ISCSI, Strange Problem

2008-09-25 Thread Daniel Dias Gonçalves
I'm with a very strange problem in the FreeBSD 7.0R I use the iscsi_initiator to mount two devices of a Dell MD3000i, the file system is UFS. The problem occurs when I make a copy of a great directory for inside of the /data/email directory, passed some minutes of beginning of copy, the SSH

iscsi multiple sessions per target support

2008-05-20 Thread Raja Subramanian
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 RELEASE on amd64 and want to connect to an iSCSI storage array that has dual SAN controllers. I have two independent paths between my FreeBSD box and the storage array -- dual NICs, ethernet switches, and controllers. Given my situation, I want to ensure I get better

Re: iSCSI initiator

2008-05-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Please clarify these : (1) Is iSCSI initiator not currently implemented for FreeBSD ? no idea. (2) There is no iSCSI target daemon currently ? /usr/ports/net/iscsi-target unless you HAVE to interwork with iSCSI, use ggate. ___ freebsd-questions

RE: iSCSI initiator

2008-05-16 Thread Tamouh H.
Please clarify these : (1) Is iSCSI initiator not currently implemented for FreeBSD ? (2) There is no iSCSI target daemon currently ? Check this post, it has step by step instructions for 6.x: http://www.southernledger.com/blogs/ee99ee/?p=33

iSCSI initiator

2008-05-15 Thread Onkar
Please clarify these : (1) Is iSCSI initiator not currently implemented for FreeBSD ? (2) There is no iSCSI target daemon currently ? Regards, Onkar ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: iSCSI initiator

2008-05-15 Thread Sahil Tandon
* Onkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-16-2008]: (1) Is iSCSI initiator not currently implemented for FreeBSD ? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html (2) There is no iSCSI target daemon currently ? net

Re: iSCSI initiator

2008-05-15 Thread Mark D. Foster
Sahil Tandon wrote: * Onkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-16-2008]: (1) Is iSCSI initiator not currently implemented for FreeBSD ? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html (2) There is no iSCSI

iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread Kurt Buff
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

Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread pete wright
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

Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread Kurt Buff
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

iSCSI hardware HBA status

2007-01-12 Thread pete wright
hi all, i have tried googling for the current status of iSCSI software and hardware HBA support in FreeBSD. A lot of the hit's seem pretty stale. Is there active development going on with support hardware iSCSI HBA's in current by any chance? I have not been able to find any listed cards

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread DAve
John Nielsen wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 14:52, DAve wrote: We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI without much success. We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 09), DAve said: The developers response, for those who are interested. hi Dave, the initiator for iSCSI will hit stable/current real soon now. that was the good news, now for the down side: what was missing all along was recovery from network disconnects, so

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread DAve
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 09), DAve said: The developers response, for those who are interested. hi Dave, the initiator for iSCSI will hit stable/current real soon now. that was the good news, now for the down side: what was missing all along was recovery from network

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
That only works if the target comes up within the 2min window that SCSI allows for. It won't wait forever. On 1/9/07, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jan 09), DAve said: The developers response, for those who are interested. hi Dave, the initiator for iSCSI

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
returns. Not sure if that is important as iSCSI is all new to me, still reading up on it. Does FreeBSD do anything special to a NFS mount when it returns? 'k, maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but iSCSI != NFS ... iSCSI is just removing your SCSI drives from your local server and putting them

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread DAve
a fsck when the mount returns. Not sure if that is important as iSCSI is all new to me, still reading up on it. Does FreeBSD do anything special to a NFS mount when it returns? 'k, maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but iSCSI != NFS I never said it was, my rather poor example (I said I was new

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-09 Thread Jeff Mohler
I never said it was, my rather poor example (I said I was new to iSCSI) was if a remote file system crashes, who should fsck it? The server (Target) or the client (Initiator)? --- Clearly, the initiator. It owns the filesystem. Its just a big anonymous file on the target with no relevant

iSCSI

2007-01-08 Thread DAve
We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI without much success. We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in the queue/on order. It is looking like FreeBSD may not provide

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-08 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:52, DAve wrote: We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI without much success. We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in the queue

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-08 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:52:06 -0500 DAve wrote: We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI without much success. We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in the queue

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-08 Thread DAve
John Nielsen wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 14:52, DAve wrote: We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI without much success. We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more

Re: iSCSI

2007-01-08 Thread DAve
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:52:06 -0500 DAve wrote: We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI without much success. We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several

Re: iSCSI setup

2006-10-31 Thread Jeff Mohler
I got bored, installed this on 5.3 with a Netapp F880. Slow isnt the word..anyone else try this with similar results? Like..max write speed is 600k/sec. On 10/23/06, freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to have my mailboxes put on iSCSI (NetAPP). I downloaded iscsi-17.5.tar.bz2

iSCSI setup

2006-10-23 Thread freebsd
Hi, I'm trying to have my mailboxes put on iSCSI (NetAPP). I downloaded iscsi-17.5.tar.bz2 and have several questions: 1) is there some more documentation on this driver? 2) someone has pointed out how to specify user and password to pass to iscontrol? 3) Which is the correct way to put

iSCSI support..

2006-10-12 Thread Jeff Mohler
Freebsd ever hope to have a stable supported iscsi layer? Thanks for any hints. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iSCSI support..

2006-10-12 Thread Josef Grosch
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:37:27PM -0700, Jeff Mohler wrote: Freebsd ever hope to have a stable supported iscsi layer? Thanks for any hints. I plan to starting testing FreeBSD 6.2 (when it is released) and iSCSI within the next few weeks. We have seattled on an HP DL360 with a Broadcom NIC

Freebsd as iscsi / aoe target (server)

2006-09-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi there, can FreeBSD be used as an iSCSI target (i.e., serving the iscsi disks) ? idem AoE ...? thanks! B _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. Forrest Tucker I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-23 Thread Richard Burakowski
for this, but can anyone point me in the right direction. iSCSI seems to be it, but I'm not sure. all, don't get network attached storage confused with network attached filesystem confused with clustered filesystem. if you go for fibre channel network attached storage, it dosen't matter if the host

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
from people. ICBW but to me it seems that iSCSI is like a distributed NFS backend. You can store the data on multiple devices, in multiple forms (as long as they all talk iSCSI). You can also have two storage sites (geographically separate) connected by fibre and use those for storage. same

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 22), Wojciech Puchar said: from people. ICBW but to me it seems that iSCSI is like a distributed NFS backend. You can store the data on multiple devices, in multiple forms (as long as they all talk iSCSI). You can also have two storage sites (geographically

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just a cheap PC with cheap IDE drives.. Whole devices accessed directly can be a lot faster than NFS, since the client doesn't have to constantly ask the NFS server whether the file it's currently accessing has changed. any problem to add such option to NFS?? with iSCSI you just CAN't do

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Whole devices accessed directly can be a lot faster than NFS, since the client doesn't have to constantly ask the NFS server whether the file it's currently accessing has changed. any problem to add such option to NFS?? with iSCSI you just CAN't do it. anyway

RE: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Ansar Mohammed
iSCSI enables block access to drives over IP. There is only so much you can do with NFS and SMB. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: November 21, 2005 6:25 PM To: Josh Endries Cc: freebsd

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
affect of transfer speed for ONE process reading one file, but not multiuser system. Regardless of whether iSCSI is any good, it's a common access method for SAN devices, and from what I've been told, may be the *only* access method. So AFAIK it's SCSI over FC, SCSI over IP was next probably

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread oxo
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:13:45PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anyway - for already existing iSCSI devices driver won't hurt of course, but i'm sure nobody that understand things won't invest in such technologies. I've been looking at iSCSI, but if someone can suggest a better alternative

iSCSI support

2005-11-21 Thread Josh Endries
I read in the status report that work is being done on iSCSI, which is awesome. We're putting in a SAN at work, starting at probably 8 TB and growing. I'm currently looking at a Coraid AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) solution since it seems to have good support for FreeBSD and Windows drivers in the works

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and growing. I'm currently looking at a Coraid AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) solution since it seems to have good support for FreeBSD and Windows drivers in the works. On the other hand, iSCSI has Windows support and FreeBSD in the works. stupid question: can anyone explain me the sense and adventages

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-21 Thread John Oxley
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:24:49AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: and growing. I'm currently looking at a Coraid AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) solution since it seems to have good support for FreeBSD and Windows drivers in the works. On the other hand, iSCSI has Windows support and FreeBSD

NDAS or iSCSI

2005-09-07 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Is there a mature implementation of either iSCSI targets or NDAS (Ximeta) for FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NDAS or iSCSI

2005-09-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 06), Ansar Mohammed said: Is there a mature implementation of either iSCSI targets or NDAS (Ximeta) for FreeBSD? There were at least two attempts at an iSCSI driver, but neither ended up releasing anything. ximeta's web site says NDAS is patented, but it looks similar

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-06 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Justin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Hackers freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 5:30 PM Subject: iSCSI (revisited?) All, I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-05 Thread Danny Braniss
All, I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable option for creating SANs? refrase question. I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. for one, it depends on how deep are your

iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-04 Thread Justin Bennett
All, I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable option for creating SANs? I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. Any other ideas for a disk to disk backup solution that people have

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-04 Thread John Pettitt
Justin Bennett wrote: All, I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable option for creating SANs? I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. Any other ideas for a disk to disk backup

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Anderson
Justin Bennett wrote: All, I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable option for creating SANs? I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. Any other ideas for a disk to disk backup

iSCSI support?

2005-02-28 Thread Sam Farmer
What version(s) of FreeBSD, if any, support iSCSI storage connectivity? Is there an open source FreeBSD iSCSI driver which would work with ethernet adapters listed on the hardware compatibility lists? Do FreeBSD drivers exist for iSCSI HBAs by Adaptec, Alacritech, Qlogic and/or Intel? Any relevent

Re: iSCSI support?

2005-02-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 28), Sam Farmer said: What version(s) of FreeBSD, if any, support iSCSI storage connectivity? Is there an open source FreeBSD iSCSI driver which would work with ethernet adapters listed on the hardware compatibility lists? Do FreeBSD drivers exist for iSCSI HBAs

iSCSI support in FreeBSD?

2004-06-21 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Is there planned iSCSI support in FreeBSD 4 or 5. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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