Mag Gam wrote:
> Well, I am poor and so is my school.
>
Hear, hear
> We want to setup a cheap storage farm so I was asking what is people's
> opinions on the the controller and the disks :-)
>
Cor, looks like it is not just me having to think of a storage farm.
Over here, some downtime (an hour...) is okay so I have been looking at
moving things to a replicated storage farm on elcheapo hardware and
zero-cost operating systems patched together with GlusterFS.
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:33 PM, John R Pierce<pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Mag Gam wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone here has experience with HP MSA60 with P400
>>> and P800 controller. How reliable are they for a 24x7 shop?
>>>
>>>
>> well, its not 5-nines stuff, there's all kinda single points of
>> failure. you want 0.99999 kinda reliability, you need a fully redundant
>> system with multipath, at every stage, like a fiberchannel SAN with dual
>> HBA's on each system, dual switches, dual controllers on each storage
>> array, etc, all components hotswappable, etc. of course, this all comes
>> at siginficant expense, both in complexity and cost.
>>
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