We actually have an XRaid now sitting in a box. I was simply going to
purchase some fiber channel cards for the servers so they can attach to
it via a QLogic fiber channel switch we have. But once that's happened
I want to make sure I can share the same storage pool with all, or
perhaps just a subset, of the servers. With OSX this required a special
XSan client. I have done very limited research so far to see what it
would take to get a collection of Gentoo servers to do this, but figured
I should ask and see if anyone could point me in some directions.
Brian
Sean Cook wrote:
I would actually spend a little more and start looking at iSCSI for attached
storage. You can generally pickup some decent chassis on ebay for not a lot
of change and it gives you a lot more flexibility.
GFS is ok if you don't want to mess around with a SAN but it has no where
near the performance of fiber or iSCSI attached storage.
Here is exactly what I am talking about...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-EMC-AX100i-iSCSI-12-Slot-SAN-Array-w-4x-250GB-HDD_W0QQitemZ300072200442QQihZ020QQcategoryZ111458QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
On 25-Jan-2007, Brian Kroth wrote:
Hello all,
I currently manage about 40 Window, OSX, and Hardened Gentoo servers. I
will soon have 12 P4 servers that were previously used as video encoders
free as well as an Apple XRaid. With all this spare hardware I thought
I'd research setting up a cluster of servers running Apache for load
balancing and high availability. I'm also looking into a MySQL cluster,
but that wouldn't require a shared filesystem. I'm wondering if anyone
has done something like this before and in particular knows a good
filesystem to use so that each of the servers can access and potentially
write to the same storage array. I've accomplished the same thing with
XServes running OSX, but they like to charge you a pretty penny for the
XSan software that allows this which I thought I'd try to avoid if
possible. So far I've seen only GFS, but haven't gotten much reading
done on it yet. Any other tips or insights would be appreciated as well.
Thanks,
Brian
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