Re: Openfiler or StarWind's iSCSI targets

[Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 23:15, Walden H. Leverich
<WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anyone have any experience w/either StarWind's iSCSI target, or
> openfiler running as an iSCSI target? The call of a 3TB SAN for 2-4K is
> hard to resist.

I've been using StarWind and later Windows Storage Server to run my
lab environments, which currently consists of three HP ML110 with 4x
Western Digital 1TB Raid Edition drivers (not HP branded) in the
``SAN''.

Performance can't be compared to the DS3400 i've installed in
production environment at customers. Of course, this was expected.

I still wouldn't consider running production stuff on this. While it
might be cheap at first, i doubt it would pay off in the long run.
I've seen to many issues with cheap hardware, and usually the stuff
you're running from a SAN is pretty important.

In the end it depends on what you need it for - if all works well, you
can certainly run production workload from it, but don't expect
stellar performance.