[AusNOG] 10gbit iSCSI SAN's which support active sync across multiply enclosures

[James Andrewartha]

On Sun, 13 May 2012, Stephen Tyers wrote:

> Another option is to use Solaris 11 as a iSCSI target (SAN). Use commodity servers running LSI RAID controllers with SSD caching. Solaris has great commercial support options and is easily configurable as a iSCSI target. Costs around $1000usd for each node for the OS.
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> They use ZFS which has replication and HA features built into the file system and has a greater capacity to deal with data replication errors that sometimes challenges typical SAN's (especially over WAN links).

Not a bad idea, but I would use Nexenta over Solaris 11. They have webUI 
which makes it more like a storage appliance like the Oracle 7000 series 
ZFS appliances. For the OP, what is your application?

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