Hello Nicholas,
Monday, February 19, 2007, 11:31:50 AM, you wrote:
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2. What is the recommended version of Opensolaris to use at the moment that has iscsi? Is there a stable-like branch or is it better to stay on the N-1 update? 3. Which leads to: coming from Debian, how easy is system updates? I remember with OpenBSD system updates used to be a pain. 4. I assume that since Solaris can't boot off zfs yet, that the best option is two mirrored drives for the OS, and all the other drives in the pool. 5. Is there a recommended amount of system memory for (only) serving storage? ie. is 4Gb sufficient for 10x500Gb SATA array, or will increasing this make a big difference to performance. How about CPU? Would 2 Xeon 5130s be sufficient for 20-40 iSCSI targets? |
2. if you are talking about iSCSI client it's in a Solaris 10 release.
IIRC correctly iSCSI server should be in U4 - otherwise use Nevada
3. you have to options to upgrade system - via patches or via upgrade.
both are fairly easy
4. that's what a lot of people are doing now. However even with zfsboot code I guess lot of people
will still mirror two drives for a system (but with zfs) and create separate pool for all the other
disks
5. there's no simple answer to this question as it greatly depends on workload and data.
One thing you should keep in mind - Solaris *has* to boot in a 64bit mode if you wan to
use all that memory as a cache for zfs, so old x86 32bit CPU are not welcome
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Best regards,
Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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