On 3/2/11, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote:
I'm very interested to find out what happened with this project and
what you ended up doing?
There were delays after changes after delays for that project that was
meant to run on the VM setup. Spent more time hacking temporary
solutions to their
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/29/10, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
raid1/iscsi if you have a single host accessing the data or gluster if
you have more than one host accessing the data...
This is starting to
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
Sounds exactly like the mentality in Hong Kong too. I mean, even the
bigger companies with Asian managers have a similar mentality. The IT
department is always the under-budgeted, under-manned and public
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
Sounds exactly like the mentality in Hong Kong too. I mean, even the
bigger companies with Asian managers have a similar mentality. The IT
department is always the
On 6/30/10, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
One thing you can do on the cheap is set up nightly backups with backuppc.
It
can run on a machine that does something else in the daytime if necessary
and
its pooling and compression scheme will store about 10x the history you
would
On 6/30/2010 11:02 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/30/10, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
One thing you can do on the cheap is set up nightly backups with backuppc.
It
can run on a machine that does something else in the daytime if necessary
and
its pooling and compression
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 01:23 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/29/10, Christopher Chanchristopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
The only problem is their HA is commercial only and costs more than
the entire hardware budget I've got for this. Crucially, it relies on
a failover/heartbeat kind
On 06/28/10 7:53 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
The only problem is their HA is commercial only and costs more than
the entire hardware budget I've got for this. Crucially, it relies on
a failover/heartbeat kind of arrangement. According to some sources,
the failover delay of a few seconds will
On 6/29/10, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
raid1/iscsi if you have a single host accessing the data or gluster if
you have more than one host accessing the data...
This is starting to look really complicated with NCP Storage units on
zfs - iscsi to gluster unit ext3
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/29/10, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
raid1/iscsi if you have a single host accessing the data or gluster if
you have more than one host accessing the data...
This is starting to look really complicated with NCP Storage units on
zfs -
On 6/29/10, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
gluster don't care about underlying filesystem...it don't support acl
yet for a reason
Could you elaborate on that? Although at the moment I don't appear to
have a need for ACL on the storage, it is always good to
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/29/10, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
gluster don't care about underlying filesystem...it don't support acl
yet for a reason
Could you elaborate on that? Although at the moment I don't appear to
have a need for ACL on the
On 6/29/10, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
Define cheap. Like these...er...hmm...creative chums here?
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
Or how about 7850USD for a 4U, 36 bay ( loaded with 12 x 1TB
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:25 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/29/10, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
Define cheap. Like these...er...hmm...creative chums here?
On 6/30/10, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
So cut appropriate corners to fit. Just not like Backblaze. Their's is
decidedly crap hobbled together.
With the kind of budget I have to work with, things are already
looking very rounded already.
I'm just thankful they
D-Link? :-D. I had to get D-Links when money was a bit tighter but now I
have HP Procurve 9210al switches.
/me stomps on Cisco crap.
D-Link had always been decent to me so that's what I usually go for if
available. I've heard people mentioned the HP ProCurves for many years
as really good
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/30/10, Christopher Chanchristopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
So cut appropriate corners to fit. Just not like Backblaze. Their's is
decidedly crap hobbled together.
With the kind of budget I have to work with, things are
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:43 AM, Drew wrote:
D-Link? :-D. I had to get D-Links when money was a bit tighter but now I
have HP Procurve 9210al switches.
/me stomps on Cisco crap.
D-Link had always been decent to me so that's what I usually go for if
available. I've heard people
Barring that I've had good luck with Linksys over the years. We just
recently installed a 48port gigabit switch in the office that set us
back around $900. Equivalent Procurve was priced at around $3000.
???
For $3000 I can get PoE+, 48 port gigabit + two expansion slots (empty),
vlan,
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 01:14 PM, Drew wrote:
Barring that I've had good luck with Linksys over the years. We just
recently installed a 48port gigabit switch in the office that set us
back around $900. Equivalent Procurve was priced at around $3000.
???
For $3000 I can get PoE+, 48
Has anybody tried or knows if it is possible to create a MD RAID1
device using networked iSCSI devices like those created using
OpenFiler?
The idea I'm thinking of here is to use two OpenFiler servers with
physical drives in RAID 1, to create iSCSI virtual devices and run
CentOS guest VMs off the
On 28/06/2010 20:13, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
Has anybody tried or knows if it is possible to create a MD RAID1
device using networked iSCSI devices like those created using
OpenFiler?
I dont use openfiler, but I run a mdraid-10 ( which isnt raid10 ), off
locally mounted, remote storage
On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote:
On 28/06/2010 20:13, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
Has anybody tried or knows if it is possible to create a MD RAID1
device using networked iSCSI devices like those created using
OpenFiler?
I dont use openfiler, but I run a mdraid-10 ( which
On 28/06/2010 20:31, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I haven't tried it yet, still researching on which way to go (looked
into Lustre, then glusterFS, then now this). Coincidentally, I just
Not sure what you are trying to do here. Lustre, glusterfs, gfs etc
solve a different problem than imported
I dont see why not. But you dont dont need openfilter to give you iscsi
capability. CentOS-5.1+ has had the ability to export an iscsi target
itself with all the tooling built in.
AFAIK, Openfiler is CentOS/rPath and has Web-based administration tool,
this why some people use it.
--
On 6/28/2010 2:50 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 28/06/2010 20:31, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I haven't tried it yet, still researching on which way to go (looked
into Lustre, then glusterFS, then now this). Coincidentally, I just
Not sure what you are trying to do here. Lustre, glusterfs, gfs
On 28/06/2010 20:55, Les Mikesell wrote:
I think he is looking for redundant, failover remote storage (i.e.
mirrored copies from different iscsi hosts). Sort of like DRBD but with
both copies remote. I think is should work but the timing might be
tricky on retries vs. failure on the iscsi
On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote:
On 28/06/2010 20:31, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I haven't tried it yet, still researching on which way to go (looked
into Lustre, then glusterFS, then now this). Coincidentally, I just
Not sure what you are trying to do here. Lustre,
On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote:
On 28/06/2010 20:55, Les Mikesell wrote:
I think he is looking for redundant, failover remote storage (i.e.
mirrored copies from different iscsi hosts). Sort of like DRBD but with
both copies remote. I think is should work but the timing
On 28/06/2010 21:30, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
Part of my concern with such a setup is the whole data system goes
down too if the storage box dies due to say blown PSU or motherboard
problem. Doesn't it?
Depends on how you set it up, if you have 2 machines ( disk nodes ),
exporting iscsi. 1
On 06/28/10 12:13 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
Has anybody tried or knows if it is possible to create a MD RAID1
device using networked iSCSI devices like those created using
OpenFiler?
The idea I'm thinking of here is to use two OpenFiler servers with
physical drives in RAID 1, to create
On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote:
Depends on how you set it up, if you have 2 machines ( disk nodes ),
exporting iscsi. 1 machine ( data node ) doing the import and sets up a
raid1; you can afford to have one of those two machines down. You *cant*
afford to have the
On 6/28/2010 3:25 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I dont see why not. But you dont dont need openfilter to give you iscsi
capability. CentOS-5.1+ has had the ability to export an iscsi target
itself with all the tooling built in.
I'm not sure yet since openFiler seems to provide a few more
On 6/29/10, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are looking at openfiler, you might also want to consider
nexentastor. Their community edition is free for up to 12TB of storage.
It's an OpenSolaris/ZFS based system with web management, able to
export cifs/nfs/ftp/sftp/iscsi
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/29/10, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are looking at openfiler, you might also want to consider
nexentastor. Their community edition is free for up to 12TB of storage.
It's an OpenSolaris/ZFS based system
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 04:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/29/10, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote:
Depends on how you set it up, if you have 2 machines ( disk nodes ),
exporting iscsi. 1 machine ( data node ) doing the import and sets up a
raid1; you can afford to have one of
On 6/29/10, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
The only problem is their HA is commercial only and costs more than
the entire hardware budget I've got for this. Crucially, it relies on
a failover/heartbeat kind of arrangement. According to some sources,
the failover delay
Christopher Chan wrote:
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/29/10, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are looking at openfiler, you might also want to consider
nexentastor. Their community edition is free for up to 12TB of storage.
It's an
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