iSCSI for hosted environments?

[Frederik Denkens <fdenkens@ilibris.be>]

Hi all,


We are about to purchase an iSCSI array (Intel) to centralize the 
storage requirements we have.

Initially we only wanted to use it less io intensive activities like 
archiving and low-volume applications. But more and more we are thinking 
about also running more intensive applications of it like IMAP and 
MySQL. Altough here I have worries about performance. Ideally it would 
be great if we could combine it with the advantages of system 
virtualisation (xen).

Do you have thoughts and/or considerations on this? Or any experiences?

Thanks,

Frederik.