>I have two servers that need to share a large amount of data. Is
it
>possible (they are physically beside each other) to connect the
scsi
>adapters on each card, to the same set of drives.
Hi Greg,
I've seen it done in a development lab with an intermediate box
used to translate signals - it never went into production tho as
the price of raid 5 plummetted at the time.
An alternative is to use a low-cost raid 5 card, software raid, or
two 100Mb/s network cards wired in crossover (I think crossover
works on such cards). The advantage of raid is you save the costs
of a 2nd system unit but have the weakness of downtime if the
single system unit fails. The advantage of the latter is that it
doesn't use any fancy setup on your machines and these cards are
quite cheap nowadays.
>From your description of the problem, the business-case for 100mb
cards in crossover looks the easiest to justify.
Kind regards
Tony Wells
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