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Re: [Xen-users] disk backend performance

To: Thomas Halinka <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] disk backend performance
From: Stefan de Konink <stefan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:22:48 +0100 (CET)
Cc: Guillaume <guillaume.chardin@xxxxxxxxx>, Xen Users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stefan de Konink <stefan@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Thomas Halinka wrote:

> i do not need any benchmarks. i measured that iscsi could saturate a
> GB-Link with about 55-60% - AoE was about 80-85% at less CPU-Usage!

My benchmarks for iSCSI vs NFS performance tests both saturate the links
10GE ->  1GE, while the first has a bit better < 10% performance.

> Why is FC faster than iSCSI? Ah, it s because of the protocol.

Non-sence.

> >  and preferably stability comparisons.
>
> open-iscsi has no stable releases yet. aoetools do have. There are also
> many users complaining about iscsi-kernel-issues....

...there is more than open-iscsi, in targets and initiators. (+ OS'es)


Stefan


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