Well, I am poor and so is my school. We want to setup a cheap storage farm so I was asking what is people's opinions on the the controller and the disks :-) On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:33 PM, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > Mag Gam wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone here has experience with HP MSA60 with P400 >> and P800 controller. How reliable are they for a 24x7 shop? >> > > well, its not 5-nines stuff, there's all kinda single points of > failure. you want 0.99999 kinda reliability, you need a fully redundant > system with multipath, at every stage, like a fiberchannel SAN with dual > HBA's on each system, dual switches, dual controllers on each storage > array, etc, all components hotswappable, etc. of course, this all comes > at siginficant expense, both in complexity and cost. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >