Kalo kemarin ada yang cari cari gimana bikin storage murah yg bisa iSCSI ataupun NFS buat main main VMWare ESX atau sebangsanya, ini solusi yang saya pakai. Kepingin pinter dan tahu komponennya : Solaris x86 atau Open Solaris dengan ZFS, tapi ya kudu belajar Solaris Kepingin mudah asal jadi pakai BUI interface : NexentaStor, free sampai 1TB.
Ini email saya ke temen saya membahas ini, sorry kupi pes, males ketik ulang : ================================================== I myself doing it the Sun's way, inspired by this http://sorenragsdale.livejournal.com/11713.html A cheap mobo of AMD64x2 with 1 PATA port and 4 x SATA port, 4GB RAM, 20GB PATA boot disk, 4x 500GB SATA disks, onboard GE for payload interface, 1 x PCI 100 BaseT for management interface and good Gigabyte casing with 400W green+low noise PSU for total ~ S$900. The OS is of course the OpenSolaris, with ZFS and the pool is using raidz (the equivalence of RAID 5 but with variable stripe width to prevent the RAID5 hole). Actually I was dreaming to buy either the Netgear or Thecus product, but the uneasiness feeling to surrender to a proprietary file system made me nervous, that is why I was happy when Sun released the SATA driver for Intel ICHx, Nvidia SATA, and Silicon Image System SATA controller on AHCI mode for Solaris x86, instead of Legacy ATA mode. The trust I gave to ZFS is proven by this incident : http://www.joyeur.com/2008/01/22/bingodisk-and-strongspace-what-happened. Although they had downtime of 10 days, but with ZFS they can go back unscathed. Other than the CIFS, NFSv4, FTP, WebDav, RSync access method (not to mention the unification of Unix POSIX and Windows ACL), the real potential I have is that I can export the part of the volume as the zvol raw volume, and set that as iSCSI target. Thus any system with iSCSI initiator, can treat that as a remote hardware LUN to be used as disk device. The other good thing is that zvol can be "Thinly provisioned" which means I can declare it has size of certain GB, where in facts it only consumes the space as big as the actual real data being written into it. This has brought me a cheap storage to play with VMWare ESX and playing the VMotion HA of it without a need to go to office :) If you know somebody who are interested with this solution but does not want to be intrigued with the knowledge of Solaris, you can point him to the NexentaStor, it is is NAS appliance with BUI which can easily be installed and used without the knowledge of Solaris. The Developer Edition has free license of 1 TB : http://www.nexenta.com/corp/ ======================================================= ------------------------------------ -- www.itcenter.or.id - Komunitas Teknologi Informasi Indonesia Gabung, Keluar, Mode Kirim : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ITCENTER/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ITCENTER/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
