Hi,
I'd like to consider using the coraid products with solaris and ZFS but
I need them to work with x86_64 on on generic opteron/amd compatible
hardware. Currently the AOE driver is beta for sparc only. I am
planning to use the ZFS file system so the raid hardware in the coraid
device will not be used as recommended for ZFS. Only the direct access
over ethernet to the disks will be used. The installation will be part
of new HPC cluster for computational chemistry and biology.
Does this seem like a good idea? I am not a storage expert and am
attempting to create a scalable distributed storage cluster for an HPC
cluster. I expect have a limited budget and commodity hardware, except
for the coraid box.
Relevant links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata_over_ethernet
http://www.coraid.com/
http://www.coraid.com/support/solaris/
All comments are welcome.
Thank you,
Kevin
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System Administrator
Rutgers University - BioMaPS Institute
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