I am primarily wanting something that will act like a DELL MD1200, SAS connected to a server, then run a clustered filesystem on the server(s) which will serve up NFS or iSCSI to client devices.
Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnst...@westmancom.com think green; don't print this email. -----Original Message----- From: Jameson, Daniel [mailto:daniel.jame...@tdstelecom.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:11 PM To: Ray Van Dolson; Graham Johnston Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: SAS Drive Enclosure What are you thinking for connectivity, Ethernet, FiberChannel, Infiniband ... Building *Storage Nodes* or in need of just drive connectivity? -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:53 PM To: Graham Johnston Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: Re: SAS Drive Enclosure On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:19:59PM +0000, Graham Johnston wrote: > I am looking for information about SAS drive enclosures, is there a > list like NANOG that covers that area of IT? > > I am specifically looking for an enclosure that can handle 12 or more > drives, I am looking to create a clustered file system between > multiple servers and would like to avoid a drive enclosure that only > works with a very small number of approved drives. I am looking to > support traditional HDDs as well as SSDs. There were discussions at some point about setting up a storage-centric list via SNIA or something else fairly 'neutral'. Never really materialized, however. Lists like lopsa-tech and the LISA/USENIX SAGE list are general enough you might get some good responses. WRT your question, we've had good luck with the Dell MD1200 line of JBODs. Ray
