Hi,
> * The SCSI Target
Framework (STGT/TGT),
> * The LIO target,
> * The iSCSI Enterprise Target (IET), and
> * The SCSI Target Subsystem (SCST).
I expierenced the SCST as the most performant and feature-complete
target. Sadly enough, it's not in kernel upstream, so you'ld have to add
two patches to your kernel to get the best performance.
The SCST Website has a table where you can compare the targets.
http://scst.sourceforge.net/scstvsstgt.htmlIf you don't want to patch your kernel or do need some native
backend-support (for e.g. Ceph), you'ld better try TGT. Just note that
userland operations in TGT are far slower than SCST.
IET looks to me like some kind of reference-implementation. It doesn't
perform well and has no feature which is more important than the
performance impact.
I've never tried LIO, so I don't know much about it.
You mentioned gluster, ceph and sheepdog. Well, gluster is a clustered
*filesystem*. It has nice features for clustered CIFS and if I
recall it
right, also for clustered NFS. It doesn't really scale horizontally,
just read the papers :)
Ceph on the other hand is an object store with the capability of virtual
block devices (rados block device or RBD) which is fully supported by
recent qemu-upstream. If you're able to switch from qemu-traditional to
upstream, it *should* be supported by Xen as well. For KVM, it's
definitely working. If you've got at least three storage-nodes, I'ld go
for it. Ceph scales horizontally, finally limited by your backend
network infrastructure. In a real world scanario: 10GBE or better.
cheers,
- Stephan
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