Hi, Ive read just about everything i can find out there on Gluster, and waded through a lot of the old posts on the user-list. I'm wondering what the current state of gluster is for interop. with windows 7 clients. I work for a company that deals with images - a lot of them are jpegs around 2Mb and raw camera images at 14-20Mb. We generate about 4-6 Tb of these each year. Currently we use expensive (fibre channel disk) block based storage over 4G fibre SAN; attached to this is a Ployserve (a HP product now) active/active cluster of 4 windows servers. All of this is due for a refresh this year (Servers with faster I/O and 10GE network) and i'm looking at all the alternatives, HP have an (IBRIX sourced) array with 2 front end servers, runs redhat, feature set similar to gluster.... I'm wondering you have any experience with a Gluster config, with a similar workload? What about windows 7 enterprise clients - use NFS or Samba? I'm considering gluster nodes as HP DL180G6 with 25x 2.5" 300Gb 10K SAS Drives in each (to keep the number of spindles up). A pair of 10GbE cards for connectivity. Do you have any thoughts on this possible config? If you were building a Gluster system from scratch with an Medium/Large business budget, how would you do it? Thanks for any help you can give with my questions. -- Jonathan Collingridge IT Manager MSP Photography <http://www.msp.com.au> jonathan.collingridge at msp.com.au <mailto:jonathan.collingridge at msp.com.au> +61 2 6933 7746 skype: jonathancollingridge PO Box 8459 Kooringal NSW 2650 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110606/c5f31a42/attachment.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: msplogoemailsm.gif Type: image/gif Size: 5615 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110606/c5f31a42/attachment.gif>
