Hey folks, I was wondering if anyone has a cassandra cluster running on a server setup using blades, with a SAN appliance as the data file storage medium.
I would expect that there would be performance let-downs if the SAN was connected with anything other than a fiber channel, but are there other drawbacks? Imagine a system with something along the lines of 12 600G 10k SAS drives in a single SAN, with a bunch of dual proc, quad core blades as the hosts. I would think that we'd have the commitlog live on the blade's internal drives would allow us to write data with sufficient throughput. Anyone have any thoughts on a Blade v. Rackable solution for spinning up a cassandra cluster? -- *David McNelis* Lead Software Engineer Agentis Energy www.agentisenergy.com o: 630.359.6395 c: 219.384.5143 *A Smart Grid technology company focused on helping consumers of energy control an often under-managed resource.*
