[ale] SATA, iSCSI, and ESX

[deritchie at earthlink.net]

If you are running iSCSI, it is strongly recommended that you turn on jumbo frames on a dedicated Gbit interface on the server. Also, it is a good idea to lock the interface speed to 1 Gbit on the server to prevent autonegotation problems.

Best regards,
Dave Ritchie
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Ashley Wilson" <awilson at smartfurniture.com>

Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:07:32 
To:"'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'" <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] SATA, iSCSI, and ESX


Forgive me if this is an absolutely stupid question... but is it possible to
get decent performance out of an iSCSI SAN full of SATA disks backing an ESX
server?  Has SATA advanced enough that it could be a reasonable (if somewhat
lesser-performing) alternative to SAS or SCSI disks in an iSCSI SAN?  The
VMs are dev only, but the SAN would have a built-in NAS feature hosting
users' home folders.  Am I trying to do too much with too little?
Thanks,
-Ash 


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