Re: [OpenAFS] San Storage AFS servers

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Devine
Russ Allbery wrote: Steve Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks like we are getting a SAN. Anyone out there using a SAN for your afs file servers? Yup, we're using SAN pretty extensively. Any gotchas out there? My understanding is that the lun looks like an attached local

Re: [OpenAFS] San Storage AFS servers

2005-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do we set up one lun as /vicepa and make it say 180 Gig as this would represent the aggregate size of the old disk shelves? Or can I go up to 256/ 512 Gig? I realize this is not something that can be objectively answered (My mileage may vary). I am

Re: [OpenAFS] San Storage AFS servers

2005-06-17 Thread Tracy Di Marco White
On 6/17/05, Steve Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I question how best to configure our servers. Currently we have Dell Poweredges with dual controllers attached to split bus disk shelves with ( 10 )36gig drives mirrored to provide (5 )36Gig volumes that we mount as /vicepa /vicepb ; etc. Do

[OpenAFS] San Storage AFS servers

2005-06-14 Thread Steve Devine
All, Looks like we are getting a SAN. Anyone out there using a SAN for your afs file servers? Any gotchas out there? My understanding is that the lun looks like an attached local drive so I can't imagine it won't work. The question is whether its a good use of expensive storage. The drives are