Re: [Xen-users] Xen storage, Server with iSCSI or dedicated SAN?

[Tom Mornini <tmornini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd suggesting looking into Coraid's AoE products.

I'm nothing more than a very satisfied user of their products.

But then that's what it's all about, right? :-)

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On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Ivan Porro wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to configuring a setup where I will have 1 DELL PE1950  
> with 2 QC Xeon 5335, 8GB ram and a HP DL380G3 with 2 Xeon 3GHz and  
> 2GB ram and Xen OSS or XenExpress v4, hosting RHEL4 and Windows VMs.
> The problem is on the storage side. Since I'm really low on budget,  
> I've to skip fiber channel and go for one of this two reasonable  
> iSCSI options:
> 1)
> SAN solution:  with a DELL/EMC2 AX150 iSCSI, single controller
>
> 2)
> NAS solution:  another server, a PE2950 configured with 2 QC Xeon  
> 5320, 8GB ram and Xeon OSS or XenExpress v4 again, acting as a  
> iSCSI target for himself and the other server. It will host also a  
> LTO2 backup library, probably DELL PV124T
> What are the real performance benefits of the SAN in this case? The  
> SAN was intended to be not entirely dedicated to XEN.  If I go for  
> a server based SAN, it will (directly or via a VM) provide storage  
> via NFS/SAMBA to other hosts
> Well, of course, you may have also option (3) and (4)... that  
> probably I missed... any help is appreciated
> thank you in advance
>
>         ivan
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