Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:
2008/10/15 Ian Forde ian@duckland.org:
Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net automount... as in: /net/servername/data
It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small networks...
OK, here are some more details: each /data is between 1 and 8 TB, network is gbps. Generally, we process data locally for efficiency/latency (processing often touches several tens or hundreds of GB) , but sometimes a box can be a bit overloaded, and we want to process data on another server, using nfs mounts. Our datacenter keeps growing, and mounting every /data on every box is becoming ugly. I'm willing to know if there's a cleaner solution.
Is there any way you would/could consider a centralized storage solution like netapp or similar? Yes, it could be costly but you *are* currently tossing back and forth up to 160 TB of data on discreet storage. Do you do backups? Do you have 20 server boxes/towers? Or are you using rackmount blade servers? HW raid cards? What size disks?
Sorry for all the prying questions - just that your computing situation intrigues me. I'd understand your reluctance to give out this info.