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It would be fore most customers to support and for IBM too.

I use FreeNAS
I use ZFS.
I use VIOS
I use iSCSI
I use IBM i.

Personally I would not put that combination together for a production server. When if fails you will be unhappy with the ability to get it back working again. IBM will be no help and will very likely wipe their hands of it.

I am also not at all comfortable with IBM i's single level store on a ZFS file system as I have yet to wrap my head around the vast differences between them and the potential performance implications there. Plus if your ZFS file system reboots for any reason things from the past can return, it's part of the way ZFS works! (I'm not going to explain that here) How would IBM i react to block of data reverting? Damaged objects come to mind.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 4/27/2016 3:41 PM, Holger Scherer wrote:

IBM i -> VIOS iSCSI-initiator -> FreeNAS or other iSCSI Targets is no big deal.

-h


Am 27.04.2016 um 21:15 schrieb Arco Simonse <arco400@xxxxxxxxx>:

Would there be any chance that one can setup a software based iSCSI
initiator to NAS storage to emulate storage? I guess the OS won't let tou
do this?



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