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iscsi - What determines the lag?
I am thinking of setting up an iScsi target to increase the hard drive space on one of my Windows VPS and just wondering what measure I should use to see if I would have lagging issues later on, is it the ping between 2 VPS (target and the client) that matters or some other measure that I could use to find out.
I used to set up one with an AdvantageCom VPS as the target and an KiloServe VPS as the client, although both were on the west coast, I had so much lag that I basically could not run any program installed on the target from the client....
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iscsi is for the LAN, not for hundreds or thousands of kilometers.
It does work, I mounted a target in Romania from Italy and also made a few backups, but running programs... That's a negative to quote a classic still alive.
M
iSCSI is over TCP which means it is limited by the speed of a single TCP connection. Which is limited by the RTT * tcp window.
My guess is that NFS over UDP would work better in your case. No idea if it can be done with windows though, i am not a windows guy.
There is a native NFS for Windows from Microsoft for a few years now, it is painful, frequent disconnects, slow performance, about what you'd expect from Microsoft.
@miTgiB both client and server?
Just client
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saponsqlserver/archive/2011/02/04/installation-amp-configuration-of-windows-nfs-client-to-enable-unix-to-windows-to-mount-a-unix-file-system.aspx
Lame
But what would you expect from Microsoft 
@zhuanyi tried regular windows share / network drive connect / samba / whatever it is called?
So what would be the recommended way to get a network drive set up on a remote Linux VPS?
Samba is good but for some reason some of the Windows programs would not recognize Samba mount as a local drive, which could be a pain as some programs are only allowed to be installed on a local drive.
@zhuanyi try samba if the client is windows.
Ya, except that Samba mount won't be recognized as a local drive by Windows
Mount CIFS on a local (LAN) VPS/server, then export it as something else.
M