On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote: > > There's a reason that those proprietary vendors are able to charge big > $$$ for this functionality. > That's the truth... I was hoping they were based off some open source implementation of iSCSI somewhere. I mean I could probably dedicate a single machine to run iSCSI and just schedule downtime, but that's something I wanted to avoid. I've been looking at something like Open-E, but it's active/passive with what is essentially a DRBD link between them. Again, not ideal. Speaking of which, why do people rely so much on DRBD for LAN deployments lately? Everyone always seems to cheap out and setup DRBD/Pacemaker/Heartbeat/*insert some HA software here* instead of using proper clustered file systems. DRBD to me has always screamed WAN replication. Maybe I just don't put enough value in it, who knows. Anyway, back to my hunt for a way to implement my Ceph cluster on Windows 2008.