> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karl R. Balsmeier > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:28 PM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Vsftpd & Iscsi - fast enough > > To extend space on our 64-bit centos FTP servers, we are considering > setting them up to work with an existing PromiseRAID system via iscsi. > > -just curious if anyone here knows if iScsi is fast enough to > serve up > all the images? > > -might it be something where we get dedicated cards and put the iScsi > traffic on its own Vlan? > > Just curious if this would hold up under alot of traffic, > like weather > images and the like... 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 ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.