[silk] looking for hardware for a ~10 TByte storage appliance

2009-01-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
Dear lazyweb, I'm looking for a cheap 2U box which can take a lot of hotplug SATA drives and run OpenSolaris with zfs. Remote management integrated a big plus. So far Fujitsu-Siemens Econel looks like my best bet (but can only take 6 SATA or SAS drives). Anything cheap and good you're

Re: [silk] aqvavit

2009-01-21 Thread Gautam John
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Re: [silk] aqvavit

2009-01-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N
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Re: [silk] [FoRK] looking for hardware for a ~10 TByte storage appliance

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Jimenez
I've had good luck with supermicro whitebox stuff in the past; they've certainly got much higher density stuff than just 6 drives/2U! For 3.5 drives see: http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=826 (12 drives in 2U) For 2.5 drives see: http://supermicro.com/products/nfo/2_5HDD.cfm (24

Re: [silk] [FoRK] looking for hardware for a ~10 TByte storage appliance

2009-01-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Paul Jimenez [21/01/09 09:03 -0600]: WRT Remote Management, they've got some IPMI cards that work somewhat reasonably. WRT remote management this is just beautiful - http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html

Re: [silk] looking for hardware for a ~10 TByte storage appliance

2009-01-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:39:25AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Dear lazyweb, I'm looking for a cheap 2U box which can take a lot of hotplug SATA drives and run OpenSolaris with zfs. Remote management integrated a big plus. So far FreeNAS with zfs+ZRAID (almost stable) looks best. Screw

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: Invest in automating the installation. Have someone figure out how things like cfengine could be used to do automated installations. If the desktops and laptops your company is using are diverse, expect more troubles. Uniformity

Re: [silk] aqvavit

2009-01-21 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: Quite a few organizations working in this space: http://piramalwater.com/ -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org