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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But, you can't just get a gig-e card for a Solaris system... since there is no Solaris initiator... correct? You need a $600 iscsi hba... which is still better thaan $1500/hba +20k brocade.
I just want to make sure I understand that there is no way currently to hook a solaris machine up with the gig-e card by installing software, like you can on windows with the initiator.
--- Michael Christian mchristi@yahoo-inc.com wrote:
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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