[clue-tech] MAC NFS?

[Dan Poler]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 13:25 -0600, David L. Willson wrote:

> How about another alternative?  iSCSI is either complex or expensive
> or
> slow or all of the above... 

I'm a couple days behind, but...

iSCSI is actually pretty cheap 'n easy to set up -- I have a setup at
home whereby an OpenFiler box (www.openfiler.com - decent web GUI
config) exports several iSCSI targets to another system which runs an
iSCSI initiator (yum install / up2date iscsi-initiator-utils on RHEL /
Fedora ; man iscsiadm and look at the EXAMPLES section for the two
commands you need to scan for targets and login to them). Each iSCSI LUN
is the root disk for a Virtual Machine running via Xen. The whole setup
took an afternoon to get going, works across bonded Gig-E for
resiliency, and has been fairly easy to maintain. Can't speak numbers in
terms of performance but I've not noted any issues -- I've found more
limitation in the cheap-o hardware in my Openfiler box than in the TCP
overhead. :)

dap 

-- 
Dan Poler, RHCE
Senior Consultant
Red Hat, Inc.
E-Mail: dpoler at redhat.com

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