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    Building an iSCSI "centralized Storage Pool" on a budget

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    Building an iSCSI "centralized Storage Pool" on a budget

    What kind of performance are you getting of your switch, are you getting line speeds (close to 1GB?), do you have Packet Flow and Jumbo Frames enabled (9k)? If you pls could share your model it would be great. Infiniband sounds like a great idea, in terms of speed/performance and bang for...
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    I am curious, what kind of custom guis are you using? I am guessing these are not GPL utils and its your own work. What kind of tasks do you have available on your custom guis? Also, is there a way to have a spare (does not have to be DRDB) separate hardware array in case of a motherboard...
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    Building an iSCSI "centralized Storage Pool" on a budget

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    Building an iSCSI "centralized Storage Pool" on a budget

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    Building an iSCSI "centralized Storage Pool" on a budget

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    Intel X25m 80g2 A list of questions.. im not sure if i did the right settings.

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    Building an iSCSI "centralized Storage Pool" on a budget

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    How to upgrade my 640GB RAID 1?

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    Any experience with EON Storage NAS appliance?

    Thanks. I will download and test it using Virtualbox this weekend.
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