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On Sep 20, 2011 3:03 AM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:40:36 +0700 |
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> Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> > > I had high hopes that ZFS would take us to a new place where all |
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> > > that would be possible. |
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> > Sounds like you need a SAN Storage solution like NetApp or HDS :-) |
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> I have those options too. But the team that runs the SAN charges and |
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> the rates are not cheap. |
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Yeah, tell me about it. |
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The day after we got our first NetApp array, the Finance Director demanded |
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to know how we were going to recoup the cost >.< |
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Then the next week, the company got its bacon saved when the production |
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database got corrupted. We quickly mount the previous hour's snapshot, and |
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averted an off day. Suddenly, the NetApp array became the company's most |
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valuable asset. |
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(Reading BOFH indeed opened up my team's unlimited resource of creativity |
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;-) ) |
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> So far the best external storage our team has ever had is the Dell |
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> M9000 on the ftp server. 15TB raw space, 11TB usable, connected as a |
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> simple DAS, and it's run for years without any issues at all. |
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> > Heck, OpenFiler is a surprisingly good solution; it's now being used |
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> > in production in my company's subsidiary. |
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> A colleague is thrilled with OpenFiler, I haven't checked it out myself |
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> yet. I might just try it out on a media server. |
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You should! If you want to play around first, install it as a VM. |
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There are some 'gotcha's, not necessarily data-corrupting bugs, but annoying |
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ones like: if the conditions are right, a reboot will fail to remount LVs |
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(simple edit to one of the scripts fixes that). And configuring it to |
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provide iSCSI LUNs is very... involved. |
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But once you get the hang of it, everything will be a breeze, just like the |
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... involved way of installing Gentoo :-) |
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As for stability, I have no complaint whatsoever. |
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Beside OpenFiler, you might also want to take a look at Nexenta. Similar |
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solution to OpenFiler (i.e., convert a server-full-of-hard-disks into a SAN |
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Storage), but based on OpenSolaris. |
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And if you do not need the utmost performance, e.g., just a never-ending |
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NAS, I have heard that QNAP enclosures are the act to follow. |
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Rgds, |
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