Hi,
I'm a bit of a newbie to all of this, so please bear with me. I am just beginning to test out iSCSI in our environment, and it looks like to really have any kind of HA, you need two of everything.
For cash strapped folks, what is a best practice for when a target needs to be rebooted (like for Windows updates) - should you shutdown the initiators first, or just reboot the target?
How does everyone handle the monthly Windows updates? I know in a HA environment, the storage is essentially in two locations, so you can restart one server, wait for everything to come back up, and restart the other.
Also, most of my testing has been with Linux initiators; and with tuning the kernel, I'm getting about 85 MB/s to a Win2k3 server, with a 'Virtual Hard Disk Image' with StarWind. Not too bad, as the local disk only gets 90 on that particular machine.
Many thanks,
Bruce
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