[OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

[Dan Swartzendruber]

Magnus wrote:
> 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.
bummer.  nexentastor doesn't either.  OI allows either one.