Yes I know thats possible with software raid. I was looking for a 100% hardware solution. I guess if you want to go HA, you have the money to blow on mirrored hardware, and all the work behind it.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Jason Burris <[email protected]> wrote: > Just build your own system with dual controllers. Setup each raid > controller as a 0, 5 or 6 based on your needs and then use linux to > create a software mirror between the two. Try to have extra drives on > each controller for hot spares. Pick a chassis with dual power > supplies, hot swapable would be nice. If you need redundancy for the > MB you really need a second chassis. Or for a single chassis that has > two mother boards, check this one out. > http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/?chs=809 > We have used these in certain situations where we needed to increase > the density of a rack. > > :wq! > jason > > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Trevor Benedict<[email protected]> wrote: > > I was just having a conversation in the irc about RAID. > > > > Does anyone know of a hardware raid system that would have (in the same > box) > > 2 raid cards, and it act like a RAID 1 or 1+0 or even a RAID 5/6? Same > > mobo/cpu. > > > > I would think someone like 3ware would have such a thing. This way you > don't > > have to have a 2nd xU mirror, and have to do "real time" replication, and > IP > > stuff. > > Linux does support hotswap pci-e. I guess the single point of failure is > the > > mobo and such. > > > > I only bring this up because I had a 3ware card fail on me last Monday. > It > > was a MySQL master. > > > > Thanks, > > -- Trevor Benedict > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
