[CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Nicolas Ross <rossnick-lists at cybercat.ca> wrote:
>> Perhaps FreeNAS would fit the bill?
>>
>> http://freenas.org/features
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestions (others also), but I don't beleivee it'll do. We
> need to be able to access the file system directly via FC so we can lock
> files across systems. Pretty much like xSan, but not on apple. xSan is
> really StorNext from Qlogic, but half the price per node. So, we are
> searching for an alternative to xSan, on linux.
>
> For those who don't know xSan, you can access a fibre-channel volume
> directly, and simultanously among many clients computer or servers. Access,
> locking and other tasks are handled by a metadata controler who is
> reponsible for keeping things together. No controler, no volume, hence a
> failover controler is needed.
>
> So from what I've read so far, I'll be stuck with StorNext.
>
> Some nodes have dedicated volumes on the fiber channel network, and I
> beleive with what I've read that I could replicate not too difficulty what
> we've done with the guid partition and apple lable volumes.
>
> Thanks,
> Nicolas
>
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Take a look @ Gluster / GlusterFS, it may just do what you need?


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