on 11-7-2008 7:18 AM Gordon McLellan spake the following: > So the short answers are: > > 1) centos/redhat possess no built-in means of block-level replication > via GFS / RHCS > 2) openfiler provides some manor of block-level replication > 3) there's "beta" software out there that can do it, but it might not > be a good idea for production (drbd) > > Just for reference; my hardware vendor can set me up with a Supermicro > Superserver with 8tb of SAS disk space on hardware raid, 8g of ram and > a 5410 quad core cpu for about $4500. From Dell, I can buy an empty > SAN box for about $5000, and then pay $500 ea for 1tb sas disks that I > can buy retail for about $200. The Dell solution provides no > replication either. The only thing I see Dell providing in this case > is a brand name and an on-site warranty. Given the most likely item > to fail in a storage server is going to be the storage, I don't see > the on-site warranty being a big bonus, since they still have to ship > you a new drive. > > -Gordon Who is your hardware vendor if you don't mind me asking? That is a very good deal on the storage. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081107/0ce5f9e9/attachment-0003.sig>