RE: Slow iSCSI tape performance

2020-10-26 Thread David C. Partridge
Direct throughput about 140MB/s From: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com [mailto:open-iscsi@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lee Duncan Sent: 26 October 2020 22:51 To: open-iscsi Subject: Re: Slow iSCSI tape performance On Oct 25, 2020, at 10:42 AM, David C. Partridge wrote: I believe

Re: Slow iSCSI tape performance

2020-10-26 Thread Lee Duncan
On Oct 25, 2020, at 10:42 AM, David C. Partridge wrote: > > I believe that it’s something to do with stopping Windows (at the target) > from sending TURs to the tape every 30s or so. Okay, that makes sense. But that has nothing to do with open-iscsi, or even iSCSI at all. > > Setting

Antw: [EXT] Re: Slow iSCSI tape performance

2020-10-26 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> The Lee-Man schrieb am 25.10.2020 um 17:51 in Nachricht <4ad354c3-5d6a-4b1f-b978-afee5d1219...@googlegroups.com>: > I haven't heard about disabling TUR for iSCSI tape improvement. Even if > true, I'm not sure how you'd do that. You'd need to modify your target IMHO > to always reply "ready"

RE: Slow iSCSI tape performance

2020-10-25 Thread David C. Partridge
open-iscsi@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of The Lee-Man Sent: 25 October 2020 16:51 To: open-iscsi Subject: Re: Slow iSCSI tape performance I haven't heard about disabling TUR for iSCSI tape improvement. Even if true, I'm not sure how you'd do that. You'd need to modify your target IMHO to alway

Re: Slow iSCSI tape performance

2020-10-25 Thread The Lee-Man
I haven't heard about disabling TUR for iSCSI tape improvement. Even if true, I'm not sure how you'd do that. You'd need to modify your target IMHO to always reply "ready" for TUR. But TUR is used to clear some conditions at the target, if present, so not sure about the semantics of ignoring

Slow iSCSI tape performance

2020-10-21 Thread david.p...@perdrix.co.uk
I've seen a report that disabling Test Unit Ready across the iSCSI link can hugely improve performance of remote tape drives. Is this something I do at the machine hosting the tape drive or at the client? Is it relevant to open iscsi? Thanks David -- You received this message because you