Hello everyone, I found out about this project looking for "distributed storage" software. What I have in mind is this:
We have 248 sites each running a work order system on a server tower with 950Gb internal storage on a RAID 5 array. Right now, the application only consumes about 15Gb of the storage, with modest future storage increases expected. What I would like to do is to somehow utilize the unused space in a distributed storage system, so that instead of backing up our application data to CDs nightly, we could just copy the backup to distributed storage space. If a server crashes and we need to reinstall it, we could just recover the backup data from the other nodes in the storage network. I was thinking of running a VM server on each machine, and one VM would run the application server, and another VM would run a ceph server, which would also make the distributed storage available. Unfortunately, the links between the sites and HQ are limited to 1.5Mbps, but that might be made up for by distributing the load over many sites. I realize ceph is not ready for production work, but if ceph would be the tool for this, I'd like to set up a test cluster in our lab and see if I can make this work. Thank you, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ceph-devel mailing list Ceph-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceph-devel
