Re: Building a 1pb volume

2013-02-06 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 01/09/2013 09:15 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: > I am currently considering some less expensive storage arrays using 4TB > SAS disks in 5+1 RAID 5 configurations (each array would be responsible > for 10 such volumes). This will give me one level of protection. Then > I'm going to propose a

Re: Building a 1pb volume

2013-02-06 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 01/09/2013 10:26 AM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: >> Never hurts to look at it. >> I understood that quite some steps were taken (now at 0.53) >> >> Some people regards the stuff from Microsoft not even "beta-grade" ;-) >> Same discussion was for reiserfs and currently for btrfs. >> >> By trying ou

Re: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 01/09/2013 06:04 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: > I calculated we would need 3 racks for the arrays, servers and > switches. We have the space in our datacenter so that won't be an issue. Why 3 racks? in a 42U racks you can have 2 X : 1 X 2U server with 2 X RAID HCA and 1 X 10 Gbit NIC (2 ports)

RE: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread aragonx
> Never hurts to look at it. > I understood that quite some steps were taken (now at 0.53) > > Some people regards the stuff from Microsoft not even "beta-grade" ;-) > Same discussion was for reiserfs and currently for btrfs. > > By trying out, you can get confidence, and from the description

RE: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread J.Witvliet
oks highly scalable. Hans From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of arag...@dcsnow.com Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 5:08 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: RE: Building a 1pb volume > You might want to take a

RE: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread aragonx
> You might want to take a look at ceph: > > http://ceph.com/docs/master/ > http://ceph.com/ceph-storage/block-storage/ Ceph/Rados appear to still be in the beta stage.  Is that not true?  The 0.48 version number doesn't leave me with a lot of confidence. -- This message has been scanned f

Re: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread aragonx
> Hi there, > some thoughts on that: > > On 09.01.2013 17:09, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: > >> Data loss > this is a matter of backup strategy, you mean availability here? This is a long term archive and this data will only reside here. > afaik the biggest SAS disks are 900GB, you mean NL-SAS?

Re: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread Jens Neu
Hi there, some thoughts on that: On 09.01.2013 17:09, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Data loss this is a matter of backup strategy, you mean availability here? Cost Speed I am currently considering some less expensive storage arrays using 4TB SAS disks in 5+1 RAID 5 configurations (each array w

Re: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 01/09/2013 05:09 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking to build a 1PB (usable) volume on a Fedora or Redhat platform. The volume (has to be a single volume) will be shared out by NFS. My considerations in the order of importance are: at this size i imagine that you need some speed w

RE: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread J.Witvliet
From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of arag...@dcsnow.com Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 4:09 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Building a 1pb volume Hi, I'm looking to build a 1PB (usable) volume on a Fedora or Re