Rudi Ahlers wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:07 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 10/12/10 10:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
I hope someone can shed some light on this for me. Has anyone tried, or have experience with, setting up a Linux server to manage a few NAS devices and thus make them all visible to the clients as one large SAN?
Basically, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to combine the current NAS's we have into one large system (typically a SAN?) and then let the clients all connect to one server (for authentication, LUN
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Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
how do you plan to implement redundancy on this system? there's a -huge- single point of failure in the middle of what you're talking about.
True, but then one could setup a HA server for the management server. And probably some load balancer(s) to cater for high availability.
Not *quite* sure I get what you want, but *if* I get it right, you might consider making the NAS into a glusterfs filesystem, and then re-exporting it from your front-end, and that could be h/a.
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