On Jan 26, 2009 16:51 +0100, Nick Jennings wrote: > The company where I work now has grown fast in the past year and we > suddenly find ourselves in need of a lot of storage. For 5 years the > company ran on a 60gig server, last year we got a 1TB RAID that is now > almost full. In 1-2 years we could easily be using 10-15TB of storage.
Nick, to be honest, I wouldn't necessarily recommend Lustre for a relatively small installation like this. The main benefit of using Lustre is that it scales the IO bandwidth very well with additional OSS nodes, but more nodes (and more complexity) also add more points of failure. If you don't need more bandwidth and/or size than can be easily served from a single node then you can use something like NFS with a single ext3 16TB filesystem today. You didn't mention the number of web servers that will be accessing the filesystem, and of course lots of clients can bring an NFS server to its knees, so that is definitely also something to consider. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
