Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:21:56 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: "pete wright" <nomadlogic@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support? Message-ID: <a9f4a3860710102121u26a4bee5x1027f582fd36d70c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <57d710000710101841h6376b1a5v8f070b2a4eae0ff4@mail.gmail.com> References: <a9f4a3860710101220s5a0c6dd9sc179eca3ba495434@mail.gmail.com> <57d710000710101841h6376b1a5v8f070b2a4eae0ff4@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/10/07, pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/10/07, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: > > At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely > > with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. > > > > I was wondering if FreeBSD could provide this on COTS hardware, but my > > googling hasn't been successful. > > > > >From my reading of this list over the past couple of years, it seems > > that both parts of the solution - iSCSI support and large disk support > > - are still problematic, but I'd like to hear more informed opinion, > > as the potential cost savings is quite large. > > > > Anyone have recent-ish experience putting something like this together? > > > > IMHO opinion I do not think FreeBSD is there...yet. ZFS is addressing > many of the enterprise filesystem features that would be needed to > implement something on this scale, and there is the iSCSI target from > NetBSD available in the ports tree. > > I think 7-RELEASE is going to be a solid foundation for building > solutions like this - but in the mean time it may be worth considering > OpenSolaris if are considering going the COTS path. > > or - you can take a look at a company like Isilon Systems > (http://www.isilon.com/) which builds very scalable filers based on > FreeBSD. I have beta tested their iSCSI implementation and it does > look good. > > HTH > -pete Thanks - being a noob at this particular part of IT, I appreciate the feedback. Kurt
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