> On Jan 24, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > >> On 1/24/2014 11:09 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: >> Is anybody using the Object Storage plugin for large-scale >> installations? > > I've not used it. > >> We're considering it, but are thinking of an in-house >> S3 storage system (riak, or ceph, or ?) Looking to support perhaps >> 300k users. I was thinking that if we use a bank of dovecot servers >> (with director) with ssds as cache, we might be able to consolidate >> all the storage on something like a riak cluster, which would make >> scaling simple and inexpensive - certainly much less than a NetApp >> solution. > > Everything costs less than a NetApp...except an EMC. > >> If anyone has any first-hand experience (or even >> off-the-top-of-their-head thoughts), I'd love to hear them)
(Stan gives a great run-down on the economics of using a NetApp or even homegrown NFS filer versus using an object storage backend.) I am quite familiar with NetApp, and EMC - I used to have a number of Celera file servers back in my BigFish/FrontBridge days. But now I'm in a situation where I have dozens of servers with spare storage bays and unused CPU cycles sitting in data centers where the power is already provisioned, and a DFS is what makes most sense for me now. So, I would like to ask once again- is anyone on the list using the object storage plugin for dovecot at any reasonably large scale, whether it's an in-house storage solution or S3? Thanks- Tom
