Hi,
Ive read just about everything i can find out there on Gluster, and waded through a lot of the old posts on the user-list. I'm wondering what the current state of gluster is for interop. with windows 7 clients.
I work for a company that deals with images - a lot of them are jpegs around 2Mb and raw camera images at 14-20Mb. We generate about 4-6 Tb of these each year.
Currently we use expensive (fibre channel disk) block based storage over 4G fibre SAN; attached to this is a Ployserve (a HP product now) active/active cluster of 4 windows servers. All of this is due for a refresh this year (Servers with faster I/O and 10GE network) and i'm looking at all the alternatives, HP have an (IBRIX sourced) array with 2 front end servers, runs redhat, feature set similar to gluster....
I'm wondering you have any experience with a Gluster config, with a similar workload? What about windows 7 enterprise clients - use NFS or Samba?
I'm considering gluster nodes as HP DL180G6 with 25x 2.5" 300Gb 10K SAS Drives in each (to keep the number of spindles up). A pair of 10GbE cards for connectivity. Do you have any thoughts on this possible config? If you were building a Gluster system from scratch with an Medium/Large business budget, how would you do it?
Thanks for any help you can give with my questions.--
Jonathan Collingridge
IT Manager
[email protected] +61 2 6933 7746
skype: jonathancollingridge
PO Box 8459 Kooringal NSW 2650
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