On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
Gordon McLellan wrote:
Hello List,
Can anyone recommend some sites regarding building high-availability storage networks using centos (or the upstream providers brand name)? I need to have approx 2-3 tb of storage available via iscsi and smb, but worry about having it all on a single server. Most of the HA articles I'm reading deal with application high availability, but not storage.
Check out openfiler?
http://www.openfiler.com/products
For me I would just buy a real storage array, better reliability generally. Though entry level pricing is around $20k.
nate
Hi Nate,
In some countries those storage arrays are about 3 more expensive, so it's cheaper to build it yourself with PC / server components. I'm actually interested in such a setup as well, and would like to cluster 2x machines to give a network RAID setup. What would you recommend using? The idea is to serve to servers which will be clustered as well, hosting web hosting Virtual Private Servers.