RE: Openfiler - anyone used it?

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah really interesting - I'm sure I'll have a couple of questions when
I think it through a bit more. But a few to start:

I have a managed gigabit switch that can create VLANs etc - never them
though - can a switch like this share iSCSI traffic and heavy network
traffic with no performance loss, or do you really need to dedicate a whole
switch to it for performance?

A VM that boots and runs from the OpenFiler store - is this as good
performance wise as running from a local single disk (or better - obviously
depending on what type of h/w the openfiler box is based on)???

Did you buy your quad port nic's new or ebay etc? - what model?

Cheers,

Paul.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martyn
Wendon
Sent: 22 September 2010 20:16
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Openfiler - anyone used it?

Yep, OpenFiler rocks :-)

I have 2 * 2TB WD SATA drives exposed over SMB & NFS and 2 * 300GB SAS
15,000 in Raid 0 on a Dell Perc 5i SAS Raid card exposed over ISCSI.

Box is an HP ML115 AMD Opteron Quad Core with 8GB Ram and a quad port Intel
Pro GB PCI-e NIC card, 2 ports bonded for ISCSI traffic and 2 ports bonded
for normal traffic (plus on-board NIC for management traffic).

ESXi boxes using ISCSI for (some) VMs, dual quad port Intel Pro GB PCI-e
NIC cards in those too to allow segmentation of ISCSI traffic (as well as
bonding for VM traffic).

Needless to say GB switches (Netgear) with appropriate LAGs and VLANs to
separate the network traffic....

All works rather well IME.


Martyn


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:33 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Openfiler - anyone used it?


> I'm just thinking about re-arranging my home, HA and work storage.
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> One of my thoughts was to implement an openfiler NAS, connected to
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> ESXi VM servers (that I'm already running), rather than the physical
> Windows 2008 R2 file server and raid 5 setup I have.
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> Has anyone here setup an openfiler box?
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> Paul.
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