On 11/8/10 6:29 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > > I have a solution that is currently centered around commodity storage bricks > (Dell R510), flash PCI-E controllers, 1 or 10GbE (on separate Jumbo Frame > Data Tier) and Solaris + ZFS. > > So far it has worked out really well. Each R510 is a box with a fair bit of > memory, running OpenIndiana for ZFS/RAIDZ3/Disk Dedup/iSCSI. Each brick is > fully populated and in a RAIDZ2 configuration with 1 hot spare. Some have > SSDs most have SAS or SATA. I export this storage pool as a single iSCSI > target and I attach each of these targets to the SAN pool and provision from > there. > > I have two VMWare physical machines which are identically configured. If I > need to perform administrative maintenance on the boxes I can migrate the > host over to the other machine. This works for me, but it took a really long > time to develop the solution and for the cost of my time it *might* have been > cheaper to just buy some package deal. > > It was a hell of a lot of fun learning though. ;)
Did you look at Nexentastor for this? You might need the commercial version for a fail-over set but I think the basic version is free up to a fairly large size. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos