[BBLISA] iSCSI - opinions / experiences?

[Peter Galvin]

My company does quite a lot if iSCSI. As far as I know all of our
production deployments have been with the Windows as the source and
NetApp and Sun as the targets.  Works very well. Windows has iSCSI
drivers built in, but we tend to use HBAs with TCP acceleration built in
for improved performance.

 
--Peter
 
Peter Baer Galvin
CTO, Corporate Technologies
781 791 2112
www.cptech.com    www.petergalvin.info
pbg at cptech.com  peter at galvin.info
 
-----Original Message-----
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
Behalf Of David Allan
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:02 PM
To: Steve Revilak
Cc: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: Re: [BBLISA] iSCSI - opinions / experiences?

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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