Re: 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

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You can have a look at this, I don't know what your budget is like

http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobopro/index.php

I have a drobo and it worked off the bat with a few linux distros

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:15 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:

> Seconded. Also you can chain a couple of MD1000s at the back of the
> MD3000 to get even more storage over SAS. We have a number of those
> with the upstream OS installed but usually a single MD3000 is enough
> for what we use them for (mainly Oracle DB server or VMWare hosts). We
> tend to split the storage between two nodes and then do OCFS2.

For the cost/performance they're not too bad a unit.  We grow by about
45TB per year of Medical Imaging Data.  For each 15TB we buy a new head
node, we're up to three now, so performance to our cluster just gets
better as we go.  These are all NFS/CIFS servers on a Jumbo Frame ethernet
network.  I originally had difficulty with the MD3000 talking multipath to
the units and the only way I could get it to work reliably in an
active/active configuration was to use the provided mptsas driver which
was a cinch to install.

This was not the case with the Solaris hosts as they didn't talk RAID and
ZFS with Solaris Multi-Pathing had built in support for the devices.

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