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We actually have an XRaid now sitting in a box. I was simply going to |
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purchase some fiber channel cards for the servers so they can attach to |
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it via a QLogic fiber channel switch we have. But once that's happened |
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I want to make sure I can share the same storage pool with all, or |
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perhaps just a subset, of the servers. With OSX this required a special |
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XSan client. I have done very limited research so far to see what it |
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would take to get a collection of Gentoo servers to do this, but figured |
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I should ask and see if anyone could point me in some directions. |
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Brian |
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Sean Cook wrote: |
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> I would actually spend a little more and start looking at iSCSI for attached |
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> storage. You can generally pickup some decent chassis on ebay for not a lot |
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> of change and it gives you a lot more flexibility. |
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> GFS is ok if you don't want to mess around with a SAN but it has no where |
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> near the performance of fiber or iSCSI attached storage. |
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> Here is exactly what I am talking about... |
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-EMC-AX100i-iSCSI-12-Slot-SAN-Array-w-4x-250GB-HDD_W0QQitemZ300072200442QQihZ020QQcategoryZ111458QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem |
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> On 25-Jan-2007, Brian Kroth wrote: |
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>> Hello all, |
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>> I currently manage about 40 Window, OSX, and Hardened Gentoo servers. I |
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>> will soon have 12 P4 servers that were previously used as video encoders |
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>> free as well as an Apple XRaid. With all this spare hardware I thought |
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>> I'd research setting up a cluster of servers running Apache for load |
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>> balancing and high availability. I'm also looking into a MySQL cluster, |
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>> but that wouldn't require a shared filesystem. I'm wondering if anyone |
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>> has done something like this before and in particular knows a good |
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>> filesystem to use so that each of the servers can access and potentially |
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>> write to the same storage array. I've accomplished the same thing with |
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>> XServes running OSX, but they like to charge you a pretty penny for the |
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>> XSan software that allows this which I thought I'd try to avoid if |
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>> possible. So far I've seen only GFS, but haven't gotten much reading |
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>> done on it yet. Any other tips or insights would be appreciated as well. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Brian |
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