For 2 nodes only you could try a shared firewire disk. it is very cheap and can work with 2 hosts and is quite fast (50MB/s)... Nick Bryant wrote: >Just wondering if anyone out there has any opinions or better still >experience with Coraid's AoE products in a centos environment? > >We're looking at developing a very basic active/standby 2 node cluster which >will need a shared storage component. It would be a huge bonus if other >servers could also use the storage device. Originally I was looking at the >Dell/EMC iSCSI solution as it's a cheaper solution than fibre channel. >However, the performance issues without using a TCP offload HBA are a bit of >a concern. > >Then I found the Coraid (www.coraid.com) products based on the open standard >AoE protocol. It's got a number of benefits including: price, less protocol >overhead for the server and the ability to use any disks where as >"enterprise" approved products form the likes of Dell/Sun etc only support >250gb sata disks at the moment. > >I guess my concern is that it's a new technology that's not been widely >adopted so far and all the issues that go along with that. > >Any options or feedback would be really helpful. > >Cheers, > >Nick > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >