[OpenIndiana-discuss] iSCSI volume and ZFS

[alka]

Understanding correctly:

You are trying to buy a iSCSI array ex like a Dell 3200, http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/powervault-iscsi-arrays or similar 
with a hardware raid + oldstyle unsecure filesystem on it and share this volume via iSCSI as a single disk vdev to OI and format with ZFS??

This is a absolute nogo !
While this will work it is slower than using OI only for all SAN or NAS tasks. Main problem is that you have checksum validation
but without any  error repair options. For these a ZFS software raid with redundancy is needed.

Better look at a SuperMicro Jbod case with a SuperMicro X9..-F mainboard, enough LSI 9207 HBA for all disks and you can do all what you want.
If you need iSCSI on it, read about Comstar, the iSCSI target solution on Solarish systems



Am 23.07.2013 um 18:42 schrieb CJ Keist:

> I'm looking at purchasing a iSCSI disk raid array and using OI to mount the iSCSI volume and format with ZFS.  Anyone out there doing this? I'd be interested in successes or issues that I should look out for.
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> Thanks....
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