If your disks are outside the chassis then you can use shared storage with SAS drives and LSI mptsas adapters.
Nexenta offers illumos solutions that can do this with either mptsas or AoE I believe. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 22, 2015, at 6:06 AM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wandering if it is possible to build a cluster in two boxes, with the > same logic a cluster in a box with shared storage, > but built using two normal machines. > The reason is that I'm having some trouble planning a SuperMicro SBB > solution. I won't go deep into the reason why. > But then I was thinking that instead of upgrading a single machine to an SBB > with shared pools and clustering, > I may think to have a second identical machine but without data disk, and > find a way to make the other controller > share the disks to both machines someway (FC? custom connections?): is there > any controller out there (supported by illumos) that I may trust to do > somethink like this? > > Gabriele > > > > illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
