You can have a look at this, I don't know what your budget is like http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobopro/index.php I have a drobo and it worked off the bat with a few linux distros On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:15 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at fas.sfu.ca>wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > > > Seconded. Also you can chain a couple of MD1000s at the back of the > > MD3000 to get even more storage over SAS. We have a number of those > > with the upstream OS installed but usually a single MD3000 is enough > > for what we use them for (mainly Oracle DB server or VMWare hosts). We > > tend to split the storage between two nodes and then do OCFS2. > > For the cost/performance they're not too bad a unit. We grow by about > 45TB per year of Medical Imaging Data. For each 15TB we buy a new head > node, we're up to three now, so performance to our cluster just gets > better as we go. These are all NFS/CIFS servers on a Jumbo Frame ethernet > network. I originally had difficulty with the MD3000 talking multipath to > the units and the only way I could get it to work reliably in an > active/active configuration was to use the provided mptsas driver which > was a cinch to install. > > This was not the case with the Solaris hosts as they didn't talk RAID and > ZFS with Solaris Multi-Pathing had built in support for the devices. > > -- > James A. Peltier > Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director > HPC Coordinator > Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus > Phone : 778-782-6573 > Fax : 778-782-3045 > E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca > Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca > http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier > MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com > > Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody > else use it, and get a new one every six months. > - Clifford Stoll > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Evolution Of Linux OS "The Most Powerful Operating System In The World" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100106/6b264188/attachment-0004.html>