Re: attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?
You can buy Coraid and fill it with sata disks www.coraid.com, isn't this an option ? Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/9/29 Michael Ben-Nes mich...@epoch.co.il: Hi, I would consider buying used server and fill it up with hard drives. Then using Linux or OpenSolaris to manage them. We have some "used servers" laying around (and I'd much prefer to use existing hardware), but we also have (or will have in the not far future) about ten or more SATA drives to stick into this array and so far I didn't find a case to put them all in. I got the following pointers from another mailing list: http://www.mwave.com.au/newAU/mwaveAU/productdetail.asp?SKU=16010594 (18 drive bays) http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/index.php?redir=http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input[product_code]=EL-PC-343Binput[category_id]=277 (18 drives) Together with the decommissioned MoBo's/CPU's/Memory we have, these might do the trick. Thanks for the advise. --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?
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Re: attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?
2009/9/30 Lev Olshvang lols...@012.net.il: You can buy Coraid and fill it with sata disks www.coraid.com, isn't this an option ? Thanks but it's not as cheap as I was hoping for (starts at $1995) and is proprietary. I'd prefer to stick to something more open, like iSCSI, and cheaper. Cheers, --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?
On Wednesday, 30 בSeptember 2009 16:09:33 Amos Shapira wrote: Thanks but it's not as cheap as I was hoping for (starts at $1995) and is proprietary. I'd prefer to stick to something more open, like iSCSI, and cheaper. Leaving price aside, calling it proprietary is complete injustice to the product. Some history... http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.2/1226.html Today... a snippet from 'modinfo aoe' description:AoE block/char driver for 2.6.2 and newer 2.6 kernels author: Sam Hopkins s...@coraid.com license:GPL vermagic: 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE SMP mod_unload 686 Also... $ yum list aoetools aoetools.i586 23-2.fc11installed In Debian... http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aoetools.html Last but not least... http://www.coraid.com/RESOURCES/AoE-Protocol-Definition So we have a free software driver, in upstream kernel for several years, maintained by the company itself, including free software user space tools and with simple and accessible protocol definition -- I wish all hardware vendors were as open. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Free software: each person contributes a brick, but ultimately each person receives a house in return. -- Brendan Scott ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?
2009/10/1 Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il: Leaving price aside, calling it proprietary is complete injustice to the product. I take it back. It's still very non-standard and will require me to stick to this particular implementation (and their hardware). With iSCSI, for instance, there are multiple open choices. Thanks, --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?
Hi, I would consider buying used server and fill it up with hard drives. Then using Linux or OpenSolaris to manage them. -- Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and Director. http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net. Cellular: 054-4848113 -- On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, We have a few PowerEdge 860's which I mostly converted from our previous-generation Windows based system to Xen hosts for development on top of CentOS 5 (the production system is now mostly hosted abroad). These servers have space for only two internal disks and I'd like to try to convert a couple of them into servers of shared storage. I'm thinking of just setting them up to sync their disks using DRBD and providing access to the rest of the network via iSCSI. I'm looking for a way to attach lots of disks to them. So far the only options I found are MD1000/3000 from Dell, which are a bit too expensive for such a side-project. Is there another economical (and sane, speed-wise) way to get lots of disks on these system's bus? Thanks, --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?
2009/9/29 Michael Ben-Nes mich...@epoch.co.il: Hi, I would consider buying used server and fill it up with hard drives. Then using Linux or OpenSolaris to manage them. We have some used servers laying around (and I'd much prefer to use existing hardware), but we also have (or will have in the not far future) about ten or more SATA drives to stick into this array and so far I didn't find a case to put them all in. I got the following pointers from another mailing list: http://www.mwave.com.au/newAU/mwaveAU/productdetail.asp?SKU=16010594 (18 drive bays) http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/index.php?redir=http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input[product_code]=EL-PC-343Binput[category_id]=277 (18 drives) Together with the decommissioned MoBo's/CPU's/Memory we have, these might do the trick. Thanks for the advise. --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?
Hello, We have a few PowerEdge 860's which I mostly converted from our previous-generation Windows based system to Xen hosts for development on top of CentOS 5 (the production system is now mostly hosted abroad). These servers have space for only two internal disks and I'd like to try to convert a couple of them into servers of shared storage. I'm thinking of just setting them up to sync their disks using DRBD and providing access to the rest of the network via iSCSI. I'm looking for a way to attach lots of disks to them. So far the only options I found are MD1000/3000 from Dell, which are a bit too expensive for such a side-project. Is there another economical (and sane, speed-wise) way to get lots of disks on these system's bus? Thanks, --Amos ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
