On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanel...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I see it, if they want to benefit from ZFS at the storage layer, > the obvious solution would be a NAS system, such as a 7210, or > something buillt from a JBOD and a head node that does something > similar. The 7210 is out of budget - and I'm not quite sure how it > presents its storage - is it NFS/CIFS? If so, presumably it would be
it can also share block device (zvol) with iscsi > The interesting alternative is to set up Comstar on SXCE, create > zpools and volumes, and make these available either over a fibre > infrastructure, or iSCSI. I'm quite excited by this as a solution, > but I'm not sure if it's really production ready. If you want "production rady" software, starting from Solaris 10 8/07 Release you can create a ZFS volume as a Solaris iSCSI target device by setting the shareiscsi property on the ZFS volume. It's not Comstar, but it works. You may want consider opensolaris (I like it better than SXCE) instead of solaris if you want to stay on bleeding-edge, or even Nexenta which recentely integrated Comstar http://www.gulecha.org/2009/03/03/nexenta-iscsi-with-comstarzfs-integration/ Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
