On 11/8/10 6:29 PM, James A. Peltier wrote:
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> I have a solution that is currently centered around commodity storage bricks (Dell R510), flash PCI-E controllers, 1 or 10GbE (on separate Jumbo Frame Data Tier) and Solaris + ZFS.
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> So far it has worked out really well. Each R510 is a box with a fair bit of memory, running OpenIndiana for ZFS/RAIDZ3/Disk Dedup/iSCSI. Each brick is fully populated and in a RAIDZ2 configuration with 1 hot spare. Some have SSDs most have SAS or SATA. I export this storage pool as a single iSCSI target and I attach each of these targets to the SAN pool and provision from there.
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> I have two VMWare physical machines which are identically configured. If I need to perform administrative maintenance on the boxes I can migrate the host over to the other machine. This works for me, but it took a really long time to develop the solution and for the cost of my time it *might* have been cheaper to just buy some package deal.
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> It was a hell of a lot of fun learning though. ;)
Did you look at Nexentastor for this? You might need the commercial version for
a fail-over set but I think the basic version is free up to a fairly large size.
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