On Apr 21, 2011 3:05 PM, "Gilles Mocellin" <gilles.mocel...@free.fr> wrote: > > Le Thursday 21 April 2011 13:29:23 shawn wilson, vous avez écrit : > [...] > > now, i am (obviously) considering building a sub-$1k san. what i'm > > wondering if if there are any better or cheaper options? it would be > > real nice if, instead of spending $900 + (big ass) power supply + > > disks, i could buy tons of cheap consumer hardware and do internal > > software raid and then some type of network raid and spend that money > > on 4 or so servers that had ~4 bays and have (even smaler / cheaper) > > redundant servers saying, get those few bits from server 1, then those > > few bits from server 2, etc. since this would require fast switching, > > i suppose such a think would run mainly on a network layer. > > > > i understand that these are some of the features of nfs4 / pnfs. > > however, i was wondering if there was any way to do this currently > > (with semi-stable software)? > > > > also, are there any *free* / open source low delta replication > > solutions yet? lastly, is there any project for doing san stuff with > > consumer hardware? (last i checked freenas looked more of a joke to > > me) > > [...] > > I'd say you can look at some distributed filesystems. > I was looking lately at glusterfs and moosefs. > > MooseFS is simpler to setup, and despite lake of High Availibillity of the > metada server, it will soon be a good choice. > > In log term, I hope Ceph (already in upstream kernel) will be the real one. > > Please, report back if you make some tests ! >
Well, someone (literally 15 min ago) told me that I needed to pick up 3x p3 servers with 3x 72gig discs. So, tests will commence. I don't have access to any commercial san hardware to compare. But I should be able to provide data on my end and hope someone can let me what those tests look on their enterprise stuff.. Then, if everything goes well I can drop some cash on a few of what I mentioned earlier.
