nate wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
nate wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
This raises an interesting question. What do you do in this kind of
scenario? How do you upgrade a NAS / SAN with say 5 / 10 TB worth of
data?
Nate, what EXACTLY does that have todo with the topic? We're talking
about a self-build NAS / SAN running on Linux (and UNIX), NOT a
commercial product
Everything I believe. Everything is a commercial product unless your
building the circuit boards from scratch. Your specific question was
how do you upgrade a NAS / SAN with say 5 / 10TB worth of data? My
answer is you build one that can be upgraded online.
And the array I mentioned previously runs on Debian. The largest
EMC arrays run on Linux as well.
While EMC won't let you self-build their high end systems, there are
other companies that sell SAN/NAS gear that runs on Linux that will
let you "self build".
nate
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No, it's not quite the same thing. A commercial storage device is built
in a such a way that the OS (normally on a separate HDD / PROM / flash
disk / etc) can be upgraded with the suppliers pre-built patches.
We're talking about doing this totally from scratch. i.e, how to build
one from PC components you have / purchased from a supplier yourself.
This also involves setting up the software (in this case CentOS, but
FreeBSD & Solaris was recommended as well). If I wanted a commercial
product, then I would have contacted the vendors and asked them this
question. And if you've been following the thread, you'll see that we
discussed Intel & AMD, SATA, SAS & SCSI, software & hardware RAID, etc,
not which commercial device works better and which don't.
It's nice to know what commercial vendors offer a way to upgrade the OS,
but I'm not interested in a commercial pre-built product, I don't have
that kind of capital
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Rudi Ahlers
CEO, SoftDux
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