[rescue] OS recommendations for Sun Fire V210
Patrick Finnegan
pat at computer-refuge.org
Wed Jun 30 18:14:04 CDT 2010
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> On 6/30/2010 5:52 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > On 06/30/10 16:25, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> >> Hmm, with iSCSI, I have a feeling that you're going to be making
> >> the LTO-2 drive shoe-shine pretty badly - you probably won't hit
> >> the 40MB/sec that it wants to run at.
> >
> > iSCSI is that slow, even over gigabit?
>
> I've worked with iSCSI storage that's MUCH faster than that over
> gigabit.
40MB/sec is 320Mbps is 1/3 of GbE or so.
Are you seeing faster than that on iSCSI over GbE, using an UltraSparc-
IIIi-based machine as the server? Or did you think I meant 40Mbps?
I think that the latency of TCP/IP gigabit ethernet is going to be a
problem.
Pat
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