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ISCSI best practice question
Post 302859451 by DustinT on Thursday 3rd of October 2013 07:15:28 AM
10-03-2013
First off, you've got a kick-butt system, congratulations... Second, you do realize you've over-engineering this just a little bit. 
And that's cool, I've done it too, many times. I've probably learned more doing this kind of work than I care to admit. Having said that, if you're serving 6-7 home media clients, I really don't think you can screw this up by choosing the 'wrong' configuration for your server. So, I'd lean towards one big zpool, just to make the administration easier.
Snapshotting an ISCSI device is possible, but you'd have to unmount the LUN before you initiated the ZFS snap. And what are you trying to accomplish with the weekly scrubs? With ZFS that sort of thing really isn't necessary in most cases.
Finally, I've been fairly active on the Mac side of things for a couple of years. I worked with a Drobo Pro and ISCI back in the 10.6.8 days back when there was a free ISCSI client for the Mac. I've got a very nice NAS right now from Netgear that I really wish I could use to it's full potential via ISCSI, but such is life. I've never wanted to spring for the GlobalSAN software.
Oh, why not just stick with your SMB shares? Do you have an application that requires DAS versus NFS shares?
And that's cool, I've done it too, many times. I've probably learned more doing this kind of work than I care to admit. Having said that, if you're serving 6-7 home media clients, I really don't think you can screw this up by choosing the 'wrong' configuration for your server. So, I'd lean towards one big zpool, just to make the administration easier. Snapshotting an ISCSI device is possible, but you'd have to unmount the LUN before you initiated the ZFS snap. And what are you trying to accomplish with the weekly scrubs? With ZFS that sort of thing really isn't necessary in most cases.
Finally, I've been fairly active on the Mac side of things for a couple of years. I worked with a Drobo Pro and ISCI back in the 10.6.8 days back when there was a free ISCSI client for the Mac. I've got a very nice NAS right now from Netgear that I really wish I could use to it's full potential via ISCSI, but such is life. I've never wanted to spring for the GlobalSAN software.
Oh, why not just stick with your SMB shares? Do you have an application that requires DAS versus NFS shares?
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