I'm not sure if you have any budget at all,l but we've been looking at Symantec's Filestore product - it's a clustered NFS software appliance built on vxfs, vvm, vcs, etc. And the shocking part is, it's only around $5k per node. So that may be in your budget where a commercial hardware-based NAS wasn't.
If the access to the files is programmatic, I'd suggest you take a look at mogilefs. It's free, open source, scalable, reliable... but it's not a userspace filesystem. If you've got an application reading/ writing files, though, modifying that app to use mogilefs may not be an unreasonable amount of work. Both of those are low-cost (or free), and both run on linux, and meet the requirements you listed. If there are other requirements, they may not. ;) Nicholas On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > It is an intentionally vague description since I want to keep an open > mind. > > This needs to run on linux, both clients and servers. > > Right now I am dealing with an older HA linux setup with NFS. It seems to > be having problems and there have been some ugly and expensive application > failures. I am looking for a solution that will be a lot more reliable > and robust. > > I am just starting my search for a replacement. The first things that > come to mind are GPFS, GFS2 and GlusterFS. I am expecting that GFS2 will > require mounting remote drives via iSCSI that are mirrored. I'm not sure > exactly how the resync would occur after a failure, I could use some > insight. I have a call scheduled with the Gluster folks to discuss how to > do it with GlusterFS, I do know that it supports mirroring on the client > end. I have never done a GPFS setup and haven't even touched a GPFS setup > in many years. > > AFS isn't an option, the Kerberos and ticketing infrastructure isn't > feasible to implement here. > > I have already suggested buying a NAS setup, but was shot down. > > What other solutions should I be looking at? > > -- Matt > It's not what I know that counts. > It's what I can remember in time to use. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
