https://thebin.net/tags/san/Recent content in San on the binHugoen-USMon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2012/02/adventures-in-zfs-configuring-iscsi-targets/Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2012/02/adventures-in-zfs-configuring-iscsi-targets/<p>The most critical thing about any storage implementation is flexibility.  This means that you need to be able to adapt your solution to changing environmental considerations.  The nice thing about a ZFS-based solution is that all of the building blocks are available.  If you want to use it as a NAS device, you can use CIFS, NFS.  If you want to provision Fibre Channel that is available too.  Even some of the more sought after SAN features are included, replication, deduplication, thin-provisioning, and many more.  Now in todays article we are going to discuss how you can go about setting up iSCSI targets.  I personally am not a fan of iSCSI (I have been bitten by the hard knee too many times), however you really can’t argue with the flexibility that is provided by being able to quickly provision storage on already existing or readily available hardware.  The best thing about this process is that it is really similar to provisioning fibre channel targets, so if you are familiar with this process (<a href="http://blog.allanglesit.com/2011/08/adventures-in-zfs-configuring-fibre-channel-targets/">available here</a>) then you will be able to quickly adapt to the iSCSI variation.</p>https://thebin.net/2011/08/adventures-in-zfs-configuring-fibre-channel-targets/Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://thebin.net/2011/08/adventures-in-zfs-configuring-fibre-channel-targets/<p>In our environment ZFS has become a critical component of our Storage Infrastructure.  We have been able to provision Fibre Channel storage from our ZFS file systems which give us the benefit of data integrity, deduplication, performance through use of the ARC, L2ARC, and ZIL as needed.  Additionally the real benefit to ZFS is our storage can run on commodity hardware which reduces the TCO significantly over the major Storage vendors.   Now administering ZFS is really quite simple, however getting Fibre Channel can be a bit more work.  However after reading this you ought to be able to handle this with your eyes closed, well maybe not with your eyes closed.  But you will be much better prepared.</p>