--- In [email protected], "siva sankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> We are working on providing storage for more than 300TB.
> Can anybody suggest how to proceed using opensource softwares.
> We have worked on iscsi-target.tar.gz in centos-5.
> So can we build 300TB using number of SAN targets.
> We need some idea on how to build big storage
> means more than 300TB using open source packages.
>
>
> Please suggest us if there are any other ways.
>
> Reards
> Siva
My local Linux Users Group just did a demo on this, from a strictly
hardware standpoint. Research (via the search engine of your choice)
"ATA over Ethernet" aka AoE. All you need to add software-wise to
your client machine(s) is the AoE driver tarball.
Unless you're having to work with hardware already in place, I can't
help you there...
The device used in the demo was a Coraid SR1521, which can support up
to 15 SATA drives up to 1TB each on a single shelf. Multiple shelfs
can have their capacities added into the user-defined RAID array(s),
as long as they -- and the devices that need to access them! -- are
within the same (NON-ROUTED) network. That's the major limitation.
There is no IP stack, just (to quote the presentation notes) "basic
RPC to send ATA commands over ethernet frames". As far as the client
machine is concerned, it's a big hard drive.
Security is provided by both the elements inherent to the filesystem
you format the array(s) under and by MAC address white/black-listing
on the shelf itself.
Resources: www.coraid.com aoetools.sourceforge.net
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