[BBLISA] iSCSI - opinions / experiences?

[David Allan]

Going back to the question of experience, has anybody on the list actually
implemented iSCSI?  If so, what OS was the initiator and what did you use
for targets?  How easy was it to set up, and how stable was the result?

Dave


On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Steve Revilak wrote:

> At my workplace, we have several shared filesystems (a combination of
> NFS and samba/CIFS).  They're adequate, but not without some level of
> headaches and hassles. (Fedora NFS being a particularly bad headache).
>
> I've been starting to look at iSCSI as an alternative.  I guess my
> biggest question is whether it's a viable alternative for NFS/CIFS.
> I'm also curious as to how well it handles types of work that are
> traditionally reserved for `local disks' (eg - applications that need
> reliable file locking).
>
> Have any of you had experience with iSCSI?
>
>
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