On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Kevin Abbey wrote:
> 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
^^^
AOE ??
> 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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