Jack Bailey <jack at internetguy.net> wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking to build a CentOS server (or servers) with a > SAN to support a large user base. The storage solution will depend heavily on the topology. All servers in same closet (same 25'): Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) All servers within the same building: Storage over TCP/IP (iSCSI) or Fibre-Channel Arbitrated-Loop (FC-AL) Furthermore, I need to know ... - Your apps - Your clients - Other uses of the storage you can think of > Question: if you had a budget of $25K (or more if > necessary), what you build? I apologize for this, but I'd feel I'd be professionally negligent if I didn't at least point it out. If you have $25K to spend, and can afford recurring costs of $1-2K/year, then I'd highly recommend RHEL AS for the support aspects. > I'm interested mainly what hardware and software is best > supported by the OS, but anything you have to say on > the subject is welcome. The HCL will at least cover the hardware compatibility aspects. RHEL AS comes with come clustering-failover capability when devices are attached to the same SAN. I would really need to know what sort of topology you are considering, as well as the main uses of your servers/storage. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)