On Mar 2, 2011, at 2:20 PM, David E. Smith wrote: > I'd like something like a PowerVault, but that's relatively expensive for my > small outfit. Openfiler looks like it would work nicely, however. The > software is free-as-in-beer, and the hardware should be fairly cheap > (relatively speaking). I should be able to build the hardware, including a > dozen or so spindles of fast-enough disk, for around $8000. Compared to the > cost of even a low-end Dell or EMC SAN, it looks really promising.
Beware Openfiler with VMware (unless they've upgraded their implementation of IET since this was written): http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1026596 I'd highly recommend looking at NexentaStor (http://www.nexenta.com). Their product has been certified by VMware, and they offer an optional VMware plugin for integrating storage management. The NexentaStor software can be self-installed on a long list of supported and reasonably priced SuperMicro hardware, or you can go through a hardware vendor like Aberdeen or Pogo Linux and get something pre-built. There's also a free "Community Edition" of NexentaStor available if you have < 18TB of raw disk to manage, but that won't get you any access to Nexenta's tech support and it's short a few features compared to the commercial version. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
