Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
The ability of iSCSI to support high throughput depends on:
1) How the back-end storage being served up by iSCSI is configured
2) How the network interconnects between the iSCSI targets and
initiators are configured
3) How well the FTP software does at reading the data from disk and
pumping it out the network
1Gbps ethernet can handle up to 115MB/s per interface. Using MPIO
round-robin over several interfaces you can continue to add throughput
if the application can scale well across these multiple paths.
-Ross
hey this part is fascinating, -so how would one practically deploy this,
-say 4 GB NICs and some supported hardware? for traffic 100 - 200 megs
daily perhaps this is too much?
There's no such thing as 'too fast', but do you really need to complete
you daily transfer in less than a second? On the practical side the
underlying disks aren't going to be that fast anyway.
On the storage side, not sure if MPIO
will auto-detect the device, but maybe it'll see it. -wonder if Vsftpd
would play well with all of this.
If you put a filesystem on an iscsi target and mount it, vsftpd won't
know/care about the actual device type.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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