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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Rainer Duffner
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:34 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: HA Storage Cookbook?
Rudi Ahlers schrieb:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM, nate <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Gordon McLellan wrote:
>>
>>> Hello List,
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend some sites regarding building high-availability
>>> storage networks using centos (or the upstream providers brand name)?
>>> I need to have approx 2-3 tb of storage available via iscsi and smb,
>>> but worry about having it all on a single server. Most of the HA
>>> articles I'm reading deal with application high availability, but
>>> not storage.
>>>
>> Check out openfiler?
>>
>> http://www.openfiler.com/products
>>
>> For me I would just buy a real storage array, better reliability
>> generally. Though entry level pricing is around $20k.
>>
>> nate
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>
> Hi Nate,
>
> In some countries those storage arrays are about 3 more expensive, so
> it's cheaper to build it yourself with PC / server components. I'm
> actually interested in such a setup as well, and would like to cluster
> 2x machines to give a network RAID setup. What would you recommend
> using? The idea is to serve to servers which will be clustered as
> well, hosting web hosting Virtual Private Servers.
>
>
If you are going the route of building your own systems vs. buying a true
filer you may want to look at something like cleversafe.org. It is intended
for globally diverse storage, but I don't see why you couldn't put together
a system in-house. I think the minimum number of systems is 4.
Andrew
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