Think about changing gears to use a network appliance. The NAS vendors typically do both unix style permission's as well as CIFS. They have point in time snapshot capabilities, and mechanisms to sync. data to a Disaster Recovery site. Anyway, I moved all of our NFS shares from a SUN platform over to NetApps appliance ; plus I got rid of all the samba servers. All of the user home directories were migrated as well. I was very pleased with the solution Regards, Brian Stephen Carville <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 03/19/2007 05:30 PM Please respond to General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Re: Thoughts on "enterprise" storage solution. Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Hey all, this is probably slightly off-topic, but I figured it might be a good > place to start. > > We're looking at replacing our "old" home directory storage solution. > Essentially it's a bunch of old Solaris boxes sharing their disks via NFS. > Users log on their various systems using NIS/LDAP and using automount are able > to access their home directories off this server. > > Several solutions have been proposed... dedicated SAN's and such with a couple > front-ends. All have fairly steep price tags and typically end up involving > Sun hardware. > > I'm trying to come up with some alternate solutions, hopefully using RHEL on > Dell/other hardware. Is RH's NFS performance/stability up their with Sun's? > I know in the past it's been recommended to go with a BSD for solid Intel NFS > performance. > > What type of solutions do some of you use out there for this type of shared > disk or home directory providing services? Any specific lists where this type > of thing might be discussed and/or be on-topic? Using GFS with something like > a PowerVault or EMC looks interesting... I found NFS version 3 on RHEL to be reliable. Version 4 is not, IMO, ready for prime time. I have a 197 G LV full of home directories I export using both samba and NFS. It's been about three years since my last Sun box went away but as I recall, the Linux automounter worked much better than the Sun version. > Thanks! > Ray > -- Stephen Carville <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Systems Engineer Land America -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ************************************************************************* This message and any attachments (the "message") are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. E-mails are susceptible to alteration. Neither SOCIETE GENERALE nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified. ************************************************************************* -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
