On Nov 30, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
What types of storage technologies are other AFS sites using for their
AFS vicep partitions? We need to figure our future direction for the
next couple of years. Fibre channel seems all the rage, but it's quite
expensive. I'm open to any and
Run solaris x86! The site I used to work at has been using it
exclusively on its afs servers since sol 10 came out.
-rob
On Nov 30, 2007, at 13:51, Stephen Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I don't have money for FC or a SAN, so I've stuck with DAS. I've had
good experience with
Don't forgo some sort of live data protection -- most likely via
RAID. If these volumes are RW, and you have a storage failure, you're
going to be putting yourself and your users through hell waiting for
stuff to be restored.
If you're not looking for super performance, go for a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],Jason Edgecombe writes:
next couple of years. Fibre channel seems all the rage, but it's quite
expensive. I'm open to any and all feedback. What works? What doesn't?
What offers the best bang for the buck on an OpenAFS server?
i went pretty cheap last time. i am
Steve Devine wrote:
Jason Edgecombe wrote:
Hi everyone,
Traditionally, we have used direct-attached scsi disk packs on Sun Sparc
servers running Solaria 9 for OpenAFS. This has given us the most bang
for the buck. We forgo RAID because we have the backup capabilities
of AFS.
What types of
On Nov 30, 2007, at 3:27 PM, John Hascall wrote:
Stephen Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] replies
I don't have money for FC or a SAN, so I've stuck with DAS. I've
had good
experience with building many smallish servers rather than one big or
expensive one.
DAS is our approach as well. We are
Stephen Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] replies
I don't have money for FC or a SAN, so I've stuck with DAS. I've had good
experience with building many smallish servers rather than one big or
expensive one.
DAS is our approach as well. We are using white boxes built from
a hot-swapable Chenbro
Jason Edgecombe wrote:
Steve Devine wrote:
Jason Edgecombe wrote:
Hi everyone,
Traditionally, we have used direct-attached scsi disk packs on Sun Sparc
servers running Solaria 9 for OpenAFS. This has given us the most bang
for the buck. We forgo RAID because we have the backup
Hi everyone,
Traditionally, we have used direct-attached scsi disk packs on Sun Sparc
servers running Solaria 9 for OpenAFS. This has given us the most bang
for the buck. We forgo RAID because we have the backup capabilities of AFS.
What types of storage technologies are other AFS sites using
Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What types of storage technologies are other AFS sites using for their
AFS vicep partitions? We need to figure our future direction for the
next couple of years. Fibre channel seems all the rage, but it's quite
expensive. I'm open to any and all
I don't have money for FC or a SAN, so I've stuck with DAS. I've had good
experience with building many smallish servers rather than one big or
expensive one.
I'm currently using cheap Dell PowerEdge servers running linux. I think we
got them for about $800/ea, and they support console
Jason Edgecombe wrote:
Hi everyone,
Traditionally, we have used direct-attached scsi disk packs on Sun Sparc
servers running Solaria 9 for OpenAFS. This has given us the most bang
for the buck. We forgo RAID because we have the backup capabilities of AFS.
What types of storage technologies are
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