Re: iSCSI SAN on copper 10Gbe

2010-08-17 Thread Joe Landman
Valerio wrote: Has anyone built an iSCSI SAN on 10Gbe copper and willing to share read/write performance numbers? This (performance) is dependent upon many things. Back end storage, size/distribution of reads/writes, etc. Do you have particular workloads you are interested in? Or just raw

Re: iscsi performance via 10 Gig

2010-05-26 Thread Joe Landman
Boaz Harrosh wrote: We reimaged the server to OpenSuse, same hardware and configs otherwise, and since then we are getting about half, or 1.2 to 1.3 Gbit per NIC, or 2.5 to 3.0 Gbit total IO throughput, but we've not had any iscsi connection errors. What are other people seeing? Doesn't need t

Re: iSCSI target recommendation

2010-03-30 Thread Joe Landman
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 08:52:42AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: An Oneironaut wrote: Hey all. Could anyone suggest a good NAS that has about 2 to 6TB of storage which is under 4k? its hard to find out whether these people have tested with open-iscsi or not. So I was

Re: iSCSI target recommendation

2010-03-29 Thread Joe Landman
An Oneironaut wrote: Hey all. Could anyone suggest a good NAS that has about 2 to 6TB of storage which is under 4k? its hard to find out whether these people have tested with open-iscsi or not. So I was hoping some of you out there who had used a storage device within this range would have som

Re: Over one million IOPS using software iSCSI and 10 Gbit Ethernet

2010-01-29 Thread Joe Landman
Bart Van Assche wrote: "1,030,000 IOPS over a single 10 Gb Ethernet link" This is less than 1us per IOP. Interesting. Their hardware may not actually support this. 10GbE typically is 7-10us, though ConnectX and some others get down to 2ish. Which I/O depth has been used in the test ? Laten

Re: Over one million IOPS using software iSCSI and 10 Gbit Ethernet

2010-01-29 Thread Joe Landman
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: I think SFP+ 10 Gbit has 0.6usec latency.. ? 10GBase-T is 2.6 usec. http://www.mellanox.com/pdf/whitepapers/wp_mellanox_en_Arista.pdf They are reporting 7+ us latency. ConnectX are a bit better on latency than the Intel NICs. http://www.ednasia.com/article-24923-so

Re: Over one million IOPS using software iSCSI and 10 Gbit Ethernet

2010-01-28 Thread Joe Landman
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello list, Please check these news items: http://blog.fosketts.net/2010/01/14/microsoft-intel-push-million-iscsi-iops/ http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/server/blog/2010/01/19/100-iops-with-iscsi--thats-not-a-typo http://www.infostor.com/index/blogs_ne

problem with kernel 2.6.28 but not with 2.6.27

2009-03-10 Thread Joe Landman
Hi folks: We are having a problem with kernel 2.6.28 and the git repository code (the latest semi-stable code doesn't support 2.6.28). Same hardware, same targets, the 2.6.27 kernel can see our targets, but 2.6.28.4 can't. RHEL 5.3 on one machine Centos 5.2 on another, both x86_64, with git c

Update (Re: open iSCSI over iSER target RPM ...)

2008-02-18 Thread Joe Landman
now that the initiator works correctly. Is there a source RPM/tree for this target? Joe Landman wrote: > Hi Erez > > Erez Zilber wrote: >> stgt (SCSI target) is an open-source framework for storage target >> drivers. It supports iSCSI over iSER among other storage target

Re: [ofa-general] [ANNOUNCE] open iSCSI over iSER target RPM is available

2008-02-18 Thread Joe Landman
Hi Erez Erez Zilber wrote: > stgt (SCSI target) is an open-source framework for storage target > drivers. It supports iSCSI over iSER among other storage target drivers. > > Voltaire added a git tree for stgt that will be added to OFED 1.4: > http://www2.openfabrics.org/git/?p=~dorons/tgt.git;a=

Re: kernel panic on open-iscsi login to target

2008-02-18 Thread Joe Landman
On Feb 17, 4:57 pm, Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > For the Centos load, this was the 5.1 kernel driver with the 865 user > space tools. "fixed" I completely rebuilt/re-installed the 865 tools after removing every trace of the previous builds (userspace a

Re: kernel panic on open-iscsi login to target

2008-02-17 Thread Joe Landman
Hi Mike On Feb 17, 3:52 pm, Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Landman wrote: > > Hi folks: > > > I have a Ubuntu 7.10 machine with a 10 GbE card connected to a > > What target? Is this the open solaris one? SCST-iSCSI in a 2.6.23.14 kernel. >

kernel panic on open-iscsi login to target

2008-02-17 Thread Joe Landman
Hi folks: I have a Ubuntu 7.10 machine with a 10 GbE card connected to a target. Same machine running Centos 5.1 connects with no problem to target using 865 code. Booting this machine into Ubuntu (2.6.22-14 kernel by default, though we have also verified that this fails in the same way with