[CentOS] Clustering

[Bo Lynch]

On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:57 am, Les Mikesell wrote:
> nate wrote:
>> Bo Lynch wrote:
>>
>>> Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi?
>>> Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not
>>> have to.
>>
>> Depends on the hardware, ideally esxi, though it is very
>> picky about hardware.
>>
>> And you should budget for it, storage will be a big concern if
>> you want to provide high availability. A good small storage
>> array(few TB) starts at around $30-40k.
>
> Have you investigated any of the mostly-software alternatives for this
> like
> openfiler, nexentastor, etc., or rolling your own iscsi server out of
> opensolaris or centos?
>
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
> _______________________________________________

No I have not, but now that you mention this I will definitely look into
these. Thanks again for all your help and info. This has been a greta
discussion.
Bo Lynch