Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:
2008/10/15 Ian Forde <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net
automount... as in: /net/servername/data
It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small networks...
OK, here are some more details:
each /data is between 1 and 8 TB, network is gbps. Generally, we
process data locally for efficiency/latency (processing often touches
several tens or hundreds of GB) , but sometimes a box can be a bit
overloaded, and we want to process data on another server, using nfs
mounts. Our datacenter keeps growing, and mounting every /data on
every box is becoming ugly. I'm willing to know if there's a cleaner
solution.
Is there any way you would/could consider a centralized storage solution
like netapp or similar? Yes, it could be costly but you *are* currently
tossing back and forth up to 160 TB of data on discreet storage. Do you
do backups? Do you have 20 server boxes/towers? Or are you using
rackmount blade servers? HW raid cards? What size disks?
Sorry for all the prying questions - just that your computing situation
intrigues me. I'd understand your reluctance to give out this info.
--
tkb
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