Christopher Chan wrote: > 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... Or 2 nexentastor (free community version) instances not configured for HA and do what you planned with MD raid with their iscsi targets. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com