Comments on: Great iSCSI info! http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/01/27/great-iscsi-info/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:34:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jason http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/01/27/great-iscsi-info/comment-page-1/#comment-512 jason Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:47:38 +0000 http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=952#comment-512 Hey, I'm open to new solutions Chad, but I have finite hardware and electrical limitations in the lab. If EMC wants to partner with me to address some of those concerns, I'm all ears :) As it turns out, my iSCSI box maxes out at 17MB/sec disk write I/O so I think it's safe to say my 1Gb NIC is far from being my bottleneck. Your article helped bring awareness to that realization. Hey, I’m open to new solutions Chad, but I have finite hardware and electrical limitations in the lab. If EMC wants to partner with me to address some of those concerns, I’m all ears :)

As it turns out, my iSCSI box maxes out at 17MB/sec disk write I/O so I think it’s safe to say my 1Gb NIC is far from being my bottleneck. Your article helped bring awareness to that realization.

]]> By: Chad Sakac http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/01/27/great-iscsi-info/comment-page-1/#comment-511 Chad Sakac Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:37:52 +0000 http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=952#comment-511 Oh - one more thing - stop with that Openfiler, and use the free EMC Celerra VSA - and you can use SRM and our VMware-integrated instant VM/Datastore snapshot restore integration! :-) Oh – one more thing – stop with that Openfiler, and use the free EMC Celerra VSA – and you can use SRM and our VMware-integrated instant VM/Datastore snapshot restore integration!

:-)

]]> By: Chad Sakac http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/01/27/great-iscsi-info/comment-page-1/#comment-510 Chad Sakac Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:35:45 +0000 http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=952#comment-510 Thanks Jason - I've been taken aback a bit at how popular it is already. It added some time and effort to make it multi-vendor (I was drawing those diagrams on my tablet in the wee hours of the weekend, and the cross-vendor input was very useful) - but I think the usefulness is much higher as a result. I'm proposing that we do a couple followups with the crew: 1) NFS - I'm circulating a draft to Vaughn based on an earlier version of the post - it was EVEN LONGER in drafts!!! We cut to keep it focused on iSCSI and make it applicable to all 2) iSCSI Part II - more on ESX/vSwitch config, I'm not entirely happy with our clarity on that 3) iSCSI Part III - will have to stay unpublished until after the next release ships, but how to use NMP RR/EMC PP + multiple sessions per target Thanks for the compliment - coming from you, it means a lot! Chad Thanks Jason – I’ve been taken aback a bit at how popular it is already.

It added some time and effort to make it multi-vendor (I was drawing those diagrams on my tablet in the wee hours of the weekend, and the cross-vendor input was very useful) – but I think the usefulness is much higher as a result.

I’m proposing that we do a couple followups with the crew:
1) NFS – I’m circulating a draft to Vaughn based on an earlier version of the post – it was EVEN LONGER in drafts!!! We cut to keep it focused on iSCSI and make it applicable to all
2) iSCSI Part II – more on ESX/vSwitch config, I’m not entirely happy with our clarity on that
3) iSCSI Part III – will have to stay unpublished until after the next release ships, but how to use NMP RR/EMC PP + multiple sessions per target

Thanks for the compliment – coming from you, it means a lot!

Chad

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