[OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

Magnus magnus at yonderway.com
Fri Jun 10 20:09:31 UTC 2011


On 6/10/11 4:05 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> Agreed.  I have seen ESXi get finicky if it thinks the iSCSI target is 
> offline.  One gotcha: it depends if the iSCSI storage is a file or a 
> zvol.  Performance of the former seemed to be about that of NFS - 
> performance of the latter sucked (I was seeing about a 50% degradation...)

I don't think this Sun appliance allows for file-backed iscsi targets. 
My testing here was with volume-based targets.



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