On Oct 21, 2007 20:49 +0300, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: > . I know that some installiations have used Sun thumper X4500's , > I'd like to learn pro's of cons of using Sun X4500's
Pros: will be a good platform for ZFS, and is also very good with Linux software RAID 5 + Lustre (used at existing sites). Cons: no multi-port access to disks prevents failover > . If I use X4500 how can I provide redundancy ? What happens if a > node fails and how can I restore the node ? There is currently no Lustre-level redundancy. The Server Network Striping feature will replicate data at the Lustre OST level, but this will not be available for some time. > . What are the supported backup applications ? (Veritas, legato > etc..) Can we use incremantal backups on lustre ? You can use any filesystem-level backup tool that runs on the clients. I'm not sure what you mean by being able to do incremental backups, as I'd expect that to be a function of the backup tool? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Software Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
