iSCSI
One alternative our NAS provider offers to NFS is iSCSI - (which is SCSI encapsulated in ethernet). It requires an iSCSI initiator in the client environment (Solaris), apparently several initiators are open source. It has been described as a poor-man's fiber-channel SAN.
Is it possible to use an iSCSI target as the iMS mail store? Would this be better than using NFS - which isn't supported on my device?
The reason I ask is because our NAS (snap 4200) is redundant RAID 5 with lots of space, etc. and I would feel better about having the mailstore in a failover environment.
Thanks for any insights,
s7
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starman7] at [2007-11-26 11:03:07]
# 1
Well, I can tell you that no testing has been done with iSCSI. That doesn't mean it won't work, but . . .
We have had one report that, "it works fine" in this forum.
You might want to post your query in the ims-ms list, found at arnold.com. That's where our developers hang out......
# 2
thanks - i will ask - the search in the forums doesn't seem to work so well, i don't get any hits on iscsi ... or on other things i've looked for.thanks,s7
# 3
yeah, the search didn't find anything. I remember a discussion of this a couple months ago, though. I don't recall anybody asking about iSCSI in the ims-info forum. You can search that at: http://ims.balius.com/a search there also comes up empty.
# 4
The answer Ned gives in the ims-info forum is, basically, that it should work, assuming you choose a filesystem we can use. If it doesn't work, then you need to yell at the iSCSI vendor.....
