On Thursday 25 June 2009 12:38:04 ESGLinux wrote: > Hi Gordan, > thanks for your answer, > > I can mount this disk with NFS (also with CIFS but I´m not using this > protocol) > > My idea was to mount the disk with NFS on the 2 nodes of a red hat cluster, > but I don´t know if it is a good idea. (perhaps no :-( ) > > The cluster are going to serve a HA httpd service (I know, with this disk I > have a SPOF, but that is all I have, no money for more .-(( ) > > any suggestion with this scenario? I *know* that's not your question, but have you think about using local disks on each server, with DRBD for the replication ? This would eliminate the SPOF and it's still cost effective (perhaps more than one lassie NAS ... ? I don't know). > > Thanks again, > > ESG > > > 2009/6/25 Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:06:22 +0200, ESGLinux <esggrupos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I have a customer with has a Lacie Ethernet Disk RAID and wants to use > > > it as a shared storage to use in a HA cluster. > > > > > > Which can be the best approach to use this kind of storage? (iscsi, > > > gnbd, nfs... ???) > > > > I don't imagine for a moment that any of those would be supported, > > considering the target audience is unlikely to ever have heard of those > > protocols. It's likely to give you SMB/CIFS and nothing else. There's no > > reason why you couldn't use it for shared storage, but that is in no way > > related to RHCS. > > > > Also remember that a single SAN/NAS of whatever description is still a > > single point of failure, which makes a mockery of the concept of HA. This > > is also (shockingly) a point (willfully) overlooked by most > > administrators and architects. > > > > -- > > Linux-cluster mailing list > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Xavier Montagutelli Tel : +33 (0)5 55 45 77 20 Service Commun Informatique Fax : +33 (0)5 55 45 75 95 Universite de Limoges 123, avenue Albert Thomas 87060 Limoges cedex -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
