[PVE-User] openiscsi with Proxmox

[Gerald Brandt]

On Jan 2, 2014, at 8:39 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Fabio for your kind input. 
> i will keep on learning on this application, from learning perspective nappit is easy. but i am worried that if some thing fails in production what will i do after that because the problem can only be extracted from SSH. 
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> @Gerald Brandt
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> would you please share some details about your "ubuntu + DRBD + IET" box
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> Can you please share the hardware specs in details (RAID CARD, Number of Drives, Capacity, RAM etc.)?
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> as you know writes are slow on DRBD how come you manage that?
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> what was the Ethernet throughput 1GB or less?
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> how it performed under heavy load?
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> Thanks,

Hi,

I use Intel Server motherboards, software RAID-6.  RAM is 4 GB.  Reads and writes easily saturate the 1GB link, peaking out at 118 MB/s.  The DRBD sync line is a direct connect cable.  I can get the DRBD and IET config files if you like, but they are pretty generic.

Gerald