My testing with 2008.11 iSCSI vs NFS was that iSCSI was about 2x faster. I used a 3 stripe 5 disk raidz (15 1.5TB sata disks). I just used the default zil, no SSD or similar to make NFS faster.
I think (don't quote me) that ESX can only mount 64 iSCSI targets, so you aren't much better off. But, COMSTAR (2009.06) exports a single iSCSI target with multiple LUNs, so that gets around the limitation. I could be all wet on this one, however, so look into it before taking my word. Obviously iSCSI and NFS are quite different at the storage level, and I actually like NFS for the flexibility over iSCSI (quotas, reservations, etc.) -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
