Monthly Archives: July 2008

A utility function to make a storage decision

Posted on July 11, 2008 by alq

I am reproducing an internal twiki post that I put together when we decided to give the Sun Thumper (x4500) a try as an iSCSI target running ZFS. Introduction Inspired by a nice paper on utility the following model aims … Continue reading →

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Attempts at using a SunFire x4500 “Thumper” as an iSCSI SAN

Posted on July 6, 2008 by alq

For development purposes I was looking for a “cheap” upgrade over our aging Apple XServeRAID fiber channel arrays. These served us well, if one excludes the lack of LUN masking in the later firmware versions, but we have consistently outgrown … Continue reading →

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