[CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

Juergen Gotteswinter jg at internetx.de
Mon Dec 13 08:06:31 UTC 2010


- Dell Equalogic - Very good experience, absolutly reliable
- EMC CX Series - Wont´t buy them again, many Problems with the iSCSI
- HP MSA - No Problems at all

Am 12.12.10 23:12, schrieb Ross Walker:
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Rudi Ahlers<Rudi at softdux.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> In one instance we need to host virtual machines, so we don't need
>>> anything fancy. I'm happy with running iSCSI / NFS and even AOE.
>>> Currently we have a few 2U SuperMicro servers with 24bays, running
>>> OpenFiler. But, OpenFiler is outdated and limited when it comes to
>>> scalability. Ideally, I would like to have a "single host" type setup,
>>> for when we move a client to a larger / new / different array, he
>>> still connects to the same host - i.e. for high availability.
>>
>>
>> Have you tried nexentastor?  It's free up to 18TB - not sure about
>> pricing after that but there's a 45 day trial of the full featured
>> version.
>
> Nexentastor is a good product, buy it's just a software product and doesn't build a tight redundant configuration. Plus there is the whole risk associated around Oracle controlling Solaris/ZFS development and bringing it in-house which may mean that companies that built their business off open source Solaris/ZFS might not survive long term.
>
> -Ross
>
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