DSS Performance

[To-M]

In order to have more connections at the same time to the same Target you would require a special SAN file system. iSCSI Target works block based - not file based. Meaning that a changes made by one person is not seen by another person working on the same target/volume. Also this can cause issues with the data, below is a list of solutions to do this. Did you send in the logs and your tests from OpenFiler to support concerning your speed issues?

SAN file system solutions are very expensive. The easiest way to share the data on iSCSI Target is to create network share and have the clients connect to the network share and not directly to the target. In case clients read only from the target and need to access recent data (written from single host only) they can logout and login new session in the initiator. This will allow them to see the recent data.

To control shared iSCSI target you need so called SAN File System programs.

MelioFS:
http://www.sanbolic.com/melio.htm
IBM:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivo...ducts/sanergy/
http://www.ibm.qassociates.co.uk/sto...rage-san-files
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StorNext:
http://www.adic.com/ibeCCtpItmDspRte...24&item=121889
SGI:
http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/...e_systems.html
PolyServe
http://www.polyserve.com/
DataPlow SFS
http://www.dataplow.com

[Raudi]

Not so complex!

One RAID and one Volume Group. In this Volume Group you create 2 Logical Volumes so you have 2 targets. Now you can connect each client to a target and can access/test the RAID from two clients at the same time...

Greetings
Stefan

[brent192]

I already have multiple targets on one volume group. Perhaps this is when the performance issue began? To be exact - I have 2 targets - both have 3 lv's mounted.

Brent

[netsyphon]

I already have multiple targets on one volume group. Perhaps this is when the performance issue began? To be exact - I have 2 targets - both have 3 lv's mounted.

Brent

should be ok given you can accept that they may end up fighting for "king of the spindle".

I have a 4 disk raid 10 (SATA) with a 9650sx and I peak out at 112mb/s between the 2 virtual machines that are housed there.

I think tom is right, you didn't update properly to block i/o. thats going to change your performance by ~30%. if that still doesnt help then can you tell us what kind of switch you are connected to?

About hardcoding interfaces: Is that you never want to disable auto-neg on only 1 side - if you hardcode one side you need to go ahead and hardcode your switch as well.

you definitely want to update all your firmware on the mainboard, drives and controller card!

[brent192]

I have created a new target after the update with the same performance. If have tried two switches - Netgear GS724T and Allied Telesis 8724XL.