Dell PowerVault

[Christopher Smith]

We are looking to setup a sorta-redundant pair of servers for a student computer lab, consisting of a pair of 2650s and a Dell PowerVault stuffed full of drives. The idea is to have all data related storage on the PV (home dirs, squid cache, etc) which will be shared between the two machines. In Case Of Emergency (tm) either machine should be able to access whatever it is the now-broken machine was using previously.

Firstly, does anyone have any experience with the PowerVaults ? Do they need any special driver support (and does FreeBSD have it) ? It's somewhat unclear to me based on Dell's website whether or not the enclosure itself has RAID capability in it, or if it is up to the HBAs in the machines themselves to do the RAID. I am assuming I'll be able to configure the PowerVault as one big chunk of space, partition it up. plug a cable from each machine into it and mount the various partitions on either box (as long as only ones tries to mount r/w at any given time). Is this how it works ?
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