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Re: [Xen-users] iscsi vs nfs for xen VMs

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] iscsi vs nfs for xen VMs
From: Christian Zoffoli <czoffoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:53:19 +0100
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Il 26/01/2011 23:33, Javier Guerra Giraldez ha scritto:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Christian Zoffoli <czoffoli@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> Every new entry level storage is based on std hardware without any hw
>> acceleration ...for example EMC AX storages are simply xeon servers.
> 
> TCP offloading is quite standard on most GbE chips.  even iSCSI
> offloading is pretty common.  I'd be surprised if EMC wouldn't take
> advantage of that.

also hardware raid6 is very common today but in entry level storages you
can find only software raid6 and the performances are terrible.

in other words don't trust so much the entry level storages of many vendors.

to test if your storage is good or not you can use simply compare the
IOPS of the formulas with real results ...and many times you can find
that numbers are very different.

Christian

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