Figured I'd pass this along incase someone doesn't know. Sun doesn't themselves supply an iSCSI initiator for Solaris. There is an iSCSI initiator in "Sun Linux" but thats just open source Linux code, not Sun stuff.
Cisco however does seem to have an iSCSI initiator for Solaris (and HP-UX, AIX, etc). Check it out here: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ps4159/ps2160/products_qanda_item0918...
To get it you need a Cisco login which I don't have, and it's already been EOL'ed. Might be interesting to play with however.
benr.
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Christian [mailto:mchristi@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: Wed 10/22/2003 12:26 PM To: Jerry; Ting, James Cc: list toasters Subject: RE: Solaris iSCSI initiator Think $500 per TOE and a $200 Linksys gigE switch, versus $1500+ per HBA and a $20,000 Brocade. Yeah, the iSCSI's a little bit cheaper.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 10:30 AM To: Ting, James Cc: list toasters Subject: RE: Solaris iSCSI initiator
Wow. this is cool. But do the cards cost as much as getting HBA's for a SAN environment. In my situation, we are trying to judge the cost differences between using an existing SAN and testing cheaper iSCSI solutions (or what would appear cheaper).
Plus, we like the Filer simplicity.
--- "Ting, James" james.ting@netapp.com wrote:
qlogic 4010 or adaptec 7211. They handle the entire iSCSI stack on the card. Both vendors support fibre and copper.
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry [mailto:juanino@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 10:21 AM To: Ting, James Subject: RE: Solaris iSCSI initiator
When you say iSCSI HBA's, do you mean Fibre HBA's. My experience was with copper gig-e.
--- "Ting, James" james.ting@netapp.com wrote:
Jerry
We haven't tested the Cisco Solaris initiator with our target. Several iSCSI HBA vendors plan to support Solaris (Qlogic, Adaptec).
Glad to hear that your experience with iSCSI on Windows has been good.
Jim Ting iSCSI Product Marketing
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry [mailto:juanino@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 7:50 AM To: list toasters Subject: Solaris iSCSI initiator
I've been testing iSCSI on windows systems and the performance/reliability seems to be good. I was wondering if anyone knows why Solaris, or any of
the
commercial unix vendors haven't jumped on board
with
this. I noticed a cisco initiator for Solaris,
but
I wonder if it even works with the netapp. If you call Sun, they are kinda clueless on iSCSI and don't really elaborate much in my experience.
This is especially annoying since I notice linux
has
some iscsi stuff.
Any thoughts?
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