Hi, Maybe this might be an option too?
http://blogs.sun.com/storage/entry/mike_shapiro_and_steve_o -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [zfs-discuss] Strategies to avoid single point of failure w/ X45x0 Servers? From: Solaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Thu Oct 9 13:09:28 2008 > I have been leading the charge in my IT department to evaluate the Sun > Fire X45x0 as a commodity storage platform, in order to leverage > capacity and cost against our current NAS solution which is backed by > EMC Fiberchannel SAN. For our corporate environments, it would seem > like a single machine would supply more than triple our current usable > capacity on our NAS, and the cost is significantly less per GB. I am > also working to prove the multi-protocol shared storage capabilities > of the Thumper significantly out perform those of our current solution > (which is notoriously bad from the end user perspective). > > The EMC solution is completely redundant with no single point of > failure. What are some good strategies for providing a Thumper > solution with no single point of failure? > > The storage folks are poo-poo'ing this concept because of the chances > for an Operating System failure... I'd like to come up with some > reasonable methods to put them in their place :) > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
