Thijs, The only thing I could find is this: http://search-lucene.com/m/VDjIlUc2Ci2/iscsi&subj=Lucene+on+NFS+iSCSI
I don't have experience with transferring Solr/Lucene/index to different hardware nodes without stopping and persisting things before transfer. Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Thijs <vonk.th...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wed, October 6, 2010 7:23:33 AM > Subject: Experience running Solr on ISCSI > > Hi. > > Our hardware department is planning on moving some stuff to new machines (on >our request) > They are suggesting using virtualization (some CISCO solution) on those >machines and having the 'disk' connected via ISCSI. > > Does anybody have experience running a SOLR index on a ISCSI drive? > We have already tried with NFS but that is slowing the index process down to >much, about 12 times slower. So NFS is a no-go. I could have know that as it >is >mentioned on a lot of places to avoid nfs. But I can't find info about ISCSI > > Does anybody have experience running a SOLR index on a virtualized >environment? Is it resistant enough that it keeps working when the virtualized > >machine is transfered to a different hardware node? > > thanks >