Hi Gino, Am 02.08.2012 um 17:24 schrieb Gino Pacitti: > I am just going to upgrade my dedicated servers for my clients apps and > resources and just need some help to deal with IP failover and Redundancy. > > I am looking at using Xsan on a Fibre Channel Switch with a External Raid. > > My idea is to have two servers that are linked for IP Failover and they link > into a Fibre Channel Switch which has the Raid Disks attached.
In our experience, it is very likely that your Fibre Channel hardware itself will fail long before one of the machines that rely on them. Seriously. We had so many RAID systems say goodbye, be it based on Firewire or FC... What we finally arrived on is a serious NAS storage, like a NetApp FAS, plus multiple cheaper NAS RAIDs for backups and bulk storage. Using the network for file system access has the advantage of not introducing another channel that can bring your systems into failure. If your machines run fine on the network but the FC adapters or the FC switch fails, you're down. If the network fails, you're down with your service anyway. Plus, all machines can have the same file systems mounted simultaneously. Maik _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
