From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 8 20:23:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972FA16A40F for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C67113C428 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l08KB14o035921; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:11:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:08:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <45A2A0E6.7090202@pixelhammer.com> In-Reply-To: <45A2A0E6.7090202@pixelhammer.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701081508.20632.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: DAve Subject: Re: iSCSI 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: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:23:24 -0000 On Monday 08 January 2007 14:52, DAve wrote: > We are moving to SAN in the near future to resolve a host of issues. I > have been looking through archives for information on FreeBSD and iSCSI > without much success. > > We currently have 15 servers running FreeBSD and several more in the > queue/on order. It is looking like FreeBSD may not provide the > production level of iSCSI initiator we will require. (The iSCSI target > host will be a third party vendor) > > I am sending a request for information to the project lead but I am also > interested in knowing if anyone is currently using any iSCSI with > FreeBSD and what your success failures might be. I just started using the latest iSCSI initiator[1] on my 6-STABLE desktop to access some volumes on a LeftHand Networks SAN. It's a bit lacking in polish, but it works quite well. The one big missing feature is that it doesn't handle network disconnections. No panics or anything though, and performance was what I expected. I'd be interested in what Danny tells you about the initiator's readiness for production use, but in any case you'll probably just have to do some stability and stress testing on your own. [1] ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-17.5.tar.bz2 JN