A cheaper solution to iSCSI/Fiber for a SAN is Coraid. AOE is very fast. www.coraid.com
-Chris On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Dino K<[email protected]> wrote: > Just as an additional tip, there are now iSCSI solutions that provide dual > controller redundancy such as some of the Equalogic stuff from Dell. > > Again NetApp does most of everything you want, iSCSI or FCAL with > multicontroller, with iSCSI you won't need an FCAL switch. > > The advantage of such an external SAN unit is that you can do Snapshotting > for added redundancy even though with INNODB (if you are using it) you'll > still have to manually dump the DB for snapshotting. > > -DK > > 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 > >
