On Aug 16, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Brendan Heading wrote:
Celso K. Webber wrote:
Maybe a Dell|EMC AX-100 using iSCSI could a better choice with a
not so high price tag.
Sorry for the long message, I believe this information can be
useful to others.
Please don't apologize, your reply was very informative and you've
probably just saved me a big pile of cash :) I've never been happy
with the PERC RAID controller that I currently have, and as part of
moving to the cluster I intend to use Adaptec stuff all the way.
However it sounds like that won't fly with the PowerVault in any case.
I saw the EMC AX-100 but I've got one significant problem with it -
the disk storage inside is SATA. The server that I'm dealing with
is essentially a build server used to do regular parallel builds,
and it may be simultaneously in use at any one time by up to 20-30
users. I've been looking at iSCSI but I find it very strange that
nobody seems to sell iSCSI-to-SCSI boxes.
I've read nothing but good reviews of the Coraid AoE systems running
in cluster configurations. I'll be setting up one the week of August
28th and I'll let the list know the results.
I saw them yesterday at LinuxWorld Expo. There was quite a buzz about
the booth. The EtherBoot folks announced direct support of AoE and
everyone I talked to about them had nothing but positive experiences
to share.
For shared storage, it's hard to imagine a better price/performance
point than AoE.
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