Re: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-07-06 Thread Sean Plaice
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:16:02 -0700, Jay Tortorelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll chime in a say that I have had great success setting up Qmail/Vpopmail/etc that stores on an nfs mount from a two machine mirror using drbd/heartbeat to provide mirroring and failover. http://www.drbd.org/

RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-07-01 Thread Clayton Weise
] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster I am looking around for a suitable (ie, reasonably priced and performance) NAS unit in order to convert a bunch of standalone servers into a cluster. SATA RAID units seem to be what

RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-07-01 Thread webmaster
Thank you to : Clayton Weise Mike Horwath Nick Harring Rainer Duffner Jay Tortorelli for your feedback and insight into this. I will now use those information to go on from there. Regards, Lu

RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-06-30 Thread Nick Harring
Title: RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 17:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking around for a suitable (ie, reasonably priced and performance) NAS unit in order to convert a bunch of standalone servers into a cluster. SATA RAID units seem to be what

Re: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-06-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking around for a suitable (ie, reasonably priced and performance) NAS unit in order to convert a bunch of standalone servers into a cluster. SATA RAID units seem to be what I am looking for. I would appreciate those out there who have experience using NAS

Re: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-06-30 Thread Jay Tortorelli
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 08:36, Rainer Duffner wrote: NetApp is really the high-end of storage, but also from a price-viewpoint. But if you have enough customers and/or pretty strict SLAs, there's hardly a choice, unless you want to gamble ;-) The clustering-software is very expensive - and

RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-06-29 Thread Clayton Weise
We use netapps (www.netapp.com) and it works great. One of the big things that made me move towards the netapp in place of many of the other NAS units out there was the fact that it runs a nix based OS. Most of the ones, say.. Dell for example just run a stripped down version of windows with

RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-06-29 Thread webmaster
I am looking around for a suitable (ie, reasonably priced and performance) NAS unit in order to convert a bunch of standalone servers into a cluster. SATA RAID units seem to be what I am looking for. I would appreciate those out there who have experience using NAS boxes for this

Re: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

2004-06-29 Thread Mike Horwath
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:29:55PM -0700, Clayton Weise wrote: We use netapps (www.netapp.com) and it works great. One of the big things that made me move towards the netapp in place of many of the other NAS units out there was the fact that it runs a nix based OS. Most of the ones, say..