[CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> On 6/29/10, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> If you are looking at openfiler, you might also want to consider
>> nexentastor.  Their community edition is free for up to 12TB of storage.
>>    It's an OpenSolaris/ZFS based system with web management, able to
>> export cifs/nfs/ftp/sftp/iscsi with support for snapshots,
>> deduplication, compression, etc.  I haven't used it beyond installing in
>> a VM and going through some options, but it looks more capable than
>> anything else I've seen for free.
>
> Thanks for the info, it looks quite interesting and seems like a
> simpler option given the claim of easy setup wizard doing things in 15
> minutes.
>
> The only problem is their HA is commercial only and costs more than
> the entire hardware budget I've got for this. Crucially, it relies on
> a failover/heartbeat kind of arrangement. According to some sources,
> the failover delay of a few seconds will cause certain services/apps
> to fail/lock up. Not an issue for the immediate need but will be a
> major no no for the other project I have in the pipeline.

So install Nexenta CP2/CP3 then. That's completely free and ZFS has its 
own web interface...