<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hey Mike,<br>Did you ever get the information you were looking for on this?<br><br>I have a little experience with an iscsi arrays, and lab'd up a test environment using the Linux Target framework (tgt) on one (beefy) server and the iscsi-initiator software on a few clients. My setup was a little different as it's CentOS/Xen based, but most of the design principles would be the same.<br><br>Added warning - not all ISCSI systems are created equal! Sadly my test environment GREATLY outperformed the Infortrend ISCSI array we purchased, averaging around %40 better performance for read/write block I/O (bonnie++). After a growth spurt in our QA department which doubled the VM count, the ISCSI system was demoted to bulk storage and a new SAS-based SAN was just purchased. I've been told by some storage specialists that many providers tweak the ISCSI controllers for better throughput, apparently Infortrend does not.<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Scott<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Mike Williams" <knightperson@zuzax.com><br><b>To: </b>"Grand Rapids Linux Users Group" <grlug@grlug.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:48:02 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[GRLUG] booting from iscsi target<br><br>I remember somebody on the list or at The Warehouse was doing this. <br>Whoever you are, can I pick your brain on duplicating that feat? I'm <br>want to get a Virtualbox Windows 7 guest to boot, first from the host <br>Ubuntu 11.10 but eventually from a guest Windows 2008, to prove to my <br>employer that Windows 7 will run happily disklessly.<br><br>I'm trying to learn about five new things at once here, and my brain is <br>overflowing!<br><br>Thanks.<br><br><br>-- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be clean.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>grlug mailing list<br>grlug@grlug.org<br>http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug<br></div><br />--
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