From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 11 04:21:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B53816A419 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:21:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F6213C45A for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:21:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so317202nzf for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:21:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=70Z4r0mOn+YcNPrpl6zdFiaeYfe5iCapFy2xrFBXr7k=; b=IMD61nq4Kk5WIiunE63We3CcqXo+O/cV3k2pFLmcqJBTqa3OPD/SbjvPutcVevnH/13W0CB8fU3cOOJvp3jLSyYyML6z2A6rzAnZNsbQWPyfrJ+XvS/NgwYKNLKRX7AKDv/KvfDvlMHvqoBf1uutdww4/1jyf/PxwvVIYUWYINs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AbWfg8qS8rvzaGmFF42Dk+75RawxVqDI+4GkkOzhzZdJ30XEsLTE0kFZwJnC2gSBCaA4PmUSaid9sWK2ZpTX3Qo6Wl5AF6sxKNSp1G38TmHoq/y09uJMcd+IzP0XbVTk/P+i4lS4yxB+8V5TUzmfJOqmFAWxUt/JLxbhnXeHA90= Received: by 10.143.1.2 with SMTP id d2mr444351wfi.1192076516618; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.158.12 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:21:56 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff" To: "pete wright" In-Reply-To: <57d710000710101841h6376b1a5v8f070b2a4eae0ff4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <57d710000710101841h6376b1a5v8f070b2a4eae0ff4@mail.gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:21:58 -0000 On 10/10/07, pete wright wrote: > On 10/10/07, Kurt Buff 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