Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:57:38 -0400 From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI HBAs Message-ID: <450C02D2.7040202@inoc.net> In-Reply-To: <E1GOZOi-0009lJ-7g@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <450B62C9.5000706@inoc.net> <7579f7fb0609152252y5660195fo419a67dbe90904cd@mail.gmail.com> <450BE564.20106@inoc.net> <E1GOZOi-0009lJ-7g@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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Danny Braniss wrote: > we have been running diskless clients for a few hundred work stations, so > i think i have some experience :-) > 1- setting a diskless freebsd is far easier than linux > 2- it's by far much easier to manage. > btw, the majority of ws are running linux. > being involved with the iSCSI initiator for FreeBSD, I can't see where > this can help for a diskless host, or in other words, what's > wrong with NFS? > also, the TOE cards are not that cheep either :-) TOE cards are no more expensive than putting a RAID card and two drives in a box. Is it more expensive than native FreeBSD diskless? Sure. I'm not saying that NFS is bad, we use it all over the place. What's nice about iSCSI is you can setup servers for anything and not care what runs on the box. Thus making almost any server diskless so long as it supports the HBA. This works great when you deploy things like Plesk, etc, which don't support NFS or diskless environements. Does it run? Sure, but not without a lot of messing around. Also, if you have the one or two Windows servers you may be forced to have, you can run them diskless as well using the same iSCSI system. I agree that diskless is a nice system to consider, and it's one of our alternate choices, but we do have some applications, virtual servers, etc, which do not support running in native FreeBSD diskless fashion. -- Robert Blayzor, BOFH INOC, LLC rblayzor\@(inoc.net|gmail.com) PGP: 0x66F90BFC @ http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 6296 F715 038B 44C1 2720 292A 8580 500E 66F9 0BFC Esc key to reboot Universe, or any other key to continue...
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