2010/9/10 Hetz Ben Hamo <het...@gmail.com> > > Hi people, > I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my VPS business. I did some > checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to have a > decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my own. (12 TB > before all the RAID stuff, after that it would lot less). All other solutions > are very expensive (example: IBM EXP 3000 costs here 6K nis without a single > hard disk). > I'm planning to use hardware based RAID card, minimal Linux distribution and > have some offers like iSCSI, NFS, CIFS - the usual suspects.
How about looking at openfiler (http://www.openfiler.com/), consider whether you want to use it for that solution and see what kind of hardware they recommend? I have never used it but considered it before and as far as I remember it's an integration of SAN management interface on top of CentOS. Cheers, --Amos _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
