On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:49, Mark Hahn wrote: > approx size/config?
SR1520 is a 15 disk unit. It is 3U. It takes SATA disks. As a result, it can hold up to 11.25TB until SATA drives get bigger. The configuration is basically put in disks and fire it up. You can then create raid sets and everything else you'd expect. You can do the config from a connected keyboard/monitor, serial terminal, or cec (something like telnet over ethernet). I personally use an Opengear serial terminal server for configuration. It runs Plan9 with no IP stack. I consider this a slight disadvantage in that it cannot produce SNMP traps. The only way to monitor it is to send udp syslog messages to a syslog receiver and grep info out of the collected logs. I think it would be much cooler if it ran a TCP/IP stack on its interfaces so that you could ssh in directly. A sufficiently clever hacker could probably pull it off considering that they use the rc shell as their command shell. If they had a TCP/IP stack, it would be able to send SNMP traps and even present an http interface. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
