Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-13 Thread Juergen Gotteswinter
- Dell Equalogic - Very good experience, absolutly reliable - EMC CX Series - Wont´t buy them again, many Problems with the iSCSI - HP MSA - No Problems at all Am 12.12.10 23:12, schrieb Ross Walker: On Dec 12, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-13 Thread RedShift
In one instance we need to host virtual machines, so we don't need anything fancy. I'm happy with running iSCSI / NFS and even AOE. Currently we have a few 2U SuperMicro servers with 24bays, running OpenFiler. But, OpenFiler is outdated and limited when it comes to scalability. Ideally, I

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-13 Thread Prentice Bisbal
John R Pierce wrote: On 12/11/10 8:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but I'm

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/13/10 12:44 AM, RedShift wrote: I'd stay away from AoE for high availability, I've tried it at home but performance can fluctuate and the AoE driver present in CentOS 5 is way too old. I wasn't able to build a HA setup without corrupting data when failover occured. Any HA block

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-12 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: The other question is if it actually works. Too many of the low-cost devices eat the data on the drives, when the motherboard or the

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-12 Thread David Sommerseth
On 12/12/10 08:56, John R Pierce wrote: IBM sells some nice one rack units as well. speaking of.anyone have any experience with the IBM DS3500 storage? I've been considering the DS3500 for my dev lab storage. These come 24x2.5 (or 12x3.5) SAS 2U boxes with redundant storage

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-12 Thread William Warren
On 12/11/2010 11:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but I'm in the market for

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-12 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:07 PM, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: On 12/11/2010 11:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system.

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-12 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 12, 2010, at 5:17 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: The other question is if it actually works. Too many of the low-cost

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: In one instance we need to host virtual machines, so we don't need anything fancy. I'm happy with running iSCSI / NFS and even AOE. Currently we have a few 2U SuperMicro servers with 24bays, running OpenFiler. But, OpenFiler

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-12 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 12, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: In one instance we need to host virtual machines, so we don't need anything fancy. I'm happy with running iSCSI / NFS and even AOE. Currently we have

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/11/10 8:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but I'm in the market for

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:31 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 12/11/10 8:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We've had very good

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 11.12.2010 um 17:38 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: Yes, I know. But the problem I have with NetApp is that it's not build for a smaller market. i.e. a client looking to start small and scale as he needs, and can afford to. The NetGear's allow exactly just that. One can start small and grow as

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Rafa Grimán
Hi :) On Saturday 11 December 2010 17:38 Rudi Ahlers wrote On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:31 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 12/11/10 8:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/11/10 8:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Maybe I'm just not shopping around enough, or maybe I prefer to well known brands, I don't know. oh, another. NexSAN ... this is more SAN block storage than NAS file storage, but you can put a NFS server between your NAS clients and it for NAS

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/11/10 9:29 AM, Rafa Grimán wrote: What about a DIY NAS with an off the shelf server and storage array? and how do you avoid single-point-of-failure?if that COTS goes down, your storage is offline, and you've lost any writes in progress. enterprise storage has fully redundant

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Rafa Grimán
On Saturday 11 December 2010 18:37 John R Pierce wrote On 12/11/10 9:29 AM, Rafa Grimán wrote: What about a DIY NAS with an off the shelf server and storage array? and how do you avoid single-point-of-failure?if that COTS goes down, your storage is offline, and you've lost any writes in

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Drew
If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We're using two different products that qualify under that heading. For NAS devices, which are our primary backup medium, we use the QNAP

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 18:15 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. EMC AX4 SAN (iSCSI) We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 11, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Go EMC. Support is solid and the units are well designed. But-But - they run Windows on the low-end stuff, don't they? ;-))) Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 11, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Go EMC. Support is solid and the units are well designed. But-But - they run Windows on the low-end stuff, don't they? ;-))) I think they run embedded windows on some of their high-end stuff as well. If done

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Jerry Franz
On 12/11/2010 09:24 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: With 100TB, DIY is out of the question ;-) I wouldn't say that. It would be...challenging...but not out of the question. But Aberdeen (note - I have no financial interest. They are simply someone I've seen marketing Linux based SAN/NAS machines

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Rafa Grimán
On Saturday 11 December 2010 23:50 Jerry Franz wrote On 12/11/2010 09:24 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: With 100TB, DIY is out of the question ;-) I wouldn't say that. It would be...challenging...but not out of the question. I don't see why it's out of the question. Why should it be? Nowadays

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: The other question is if it actually works. Too many of the low-cost devices eat the data on the drives, when the motherboard or the controller fries... With luck, you can read the data on one of the drives... If

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread John R Pierce
IBM sells some nice one rack units as well. speaking of.anyone have any experience with the IBM DS3500 storage? I've been considering the DS3500 for my dev lab storage. These come 24x2.5 (or 12x3.5) SAS 2U boxes with redundant storage controllers that have 2x2 SAS host ports and either