Todd,

thanks for bringing light into this for me!

I have the IDE thing, so I posted to the wrong forum (again) I guess - sorry.

Another question about hardware: For my iSCSI server, will more cpu cores or a hi GHz CPU be faster? I don't know how threads are handled in the open-e os when doing scsi->tcpip - so is a 2,6 GHz Intel core2duo (2 cores) faster then a 2,4ghz core2quad (2x2 cores) or vice versa?

About RAM: does RAM work as an additional read/write buffer on the system? If I add 8 GB of RAM, will i have a 8 GB (minus system) RAM cache for burst inputs?

So I need to use a SAN software if I want to have multiple users connect to one huge target - that's fine, I still don't need a metadata controller so I'm off a lot cheaper even if I use 10GB ethernet.


Still unsure about the snapshot issue, I opened a separate post about that. I got the basic technology behind snapshots but still I feel challenged at implementing the right snapshot strategy.

I tested some more with the different initiators. After having several connection lockups with the globalSAN initiator, I started up Parallels Workstation on my Mac and connected my VM to the target (win xp with ms iscsi initiator). I did this yesterday night. This morning, I accessed the target in my VM and it worked like a charm, everything behaved like it should, so I guess it's a globalSAN initiator issue. Oh well.