Mag Gam wrote: > Well, I am poor and so is my school. > Hear, hear > We want to setup a cheap storage farm so I was asking what is people's > opinions on the the controller and the disks :-) > Cor, looks like it is not just me having to think of a storage farm. Over here, some downtime (an hour...) is okay so I have been looking at moving things to a replicated storage farm on elcheapo hardware and zero-cost operating systems patched together with GlusterFS. > > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >