Interesting debate. The SSD performance is currently stunted. The lower cost platforms are attaching the devices to traditional SATA/SAS controllers which limits them to the controllers ASIC and PCIe bus. What is the point or value of spending the $ to be bottle necked by the controller. In addition...

We have existing drives with actives shares. We were looking for a way the present the current drives for iSCSI and replicate to an outside target.

I have had a little experience with 10Gbe and VMWare but not with Chelsio. In the process of researching an upgrade to vSphere and 10Gbe I discovered there is very little information on 10Gbe any where. Lots of sales material but not any real world functional information. It took a few weeks but I w...

The other post on using enterprise hardware is a good choice. DELL and HP both offer 2U servers that old 12 drives and decent SAS RAID controllers. Now that near line SAS drives are readily available, you can mix drive sizes in a server or storage node as mentioned above. Near line SAS drives are 7....

The description of Starport appears to allow for a mirror of a drive connected by FC to an iSCSI target. I have not been able to find a way to select the "local" FC drive to add it to a RAID 1 configuration. Any other documentation on how to mix the drive types for the RAID configuration?