On December 2, 2004 03:36 pm, "J. Rafael S�nchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Wondering if anyone here would care to comment on SANs and/or NASs. Have > you used any particular brand, general configuration ideas, price ranges? > > I, been managing an environment in which a dozen servers running Linux, > have their own large scsi drive farm of their own, either on raid or > individually. Due to different circumstances, these drives need to be > cross mounted throughout the network. > > This became a problem when one of the servers would go down; it pretty > much brought other servers down. The way I fixed that problem was by > managing NFS on "let-me-know-what-you-need" bases and I would mount it > and then remove the mount when not needed anymore.
automount will do that for you now. > > Another issue I'm having is that because of the segregation of the data, > [lot's of it, by the way] sometimes even, across different servers, > compels users to copy/ftp data around, adding to too much redundancy. > This causes the misuse of space. > > Right now, I figure I have only about 3TB data in total and about 4TB > capacity. > > I would like to move towards a large, very large in this case, logical > volume, a San/Nas solution if you will; except that I'd like to do it as > inexpensive as possible. You definitely want too look at NAS then. SAN requires a switch which costs 15-20K CAD just to start out. Even if you have to run a second GigE network for good enough NAS performance it will be much cheaper. Especially if you only need 4TB of storage. One Opteron based NAS can support more than that now. -- Mark Lane, CET -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sales Manager -- Hard Data Ltd -- http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 -- F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our New Dual and 4 Way Blade Servers <-- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
