[BBLISA] iSCSI - opinions / experiences?

[Dean Anderson]

There was a nifty presentation at a BBLISA a while back on iSCSI.  Did they
leave this presentation somewhere?

I'm not real enthused about iSCSI, but vendors like EMC that make giant disk
farms are promoting it.  I supposed if I owned a multi-terra EMC array, I might
be more interested...

But I think Adam got the distinction down. iSCSI gives you block devices that
aren't shared, but are network-remote.  NFS gives you network-remote file
sharing.  Both approaches can be used to create diskless computers...

Which is good for you depends a lot on what you need to do with your big disk 
farm, and whether you even want to create/buy a big disk farm.

		--Dean


On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, David Allan wrote:

> 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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