[ale] Redundant File Servers

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Sep 14 10:43:45 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:30, Chris Ricker wrote:

> If you really want active-active, be prepared to spend a lot ;-). Also, be 
> extremely sure you know exactly what you're buying. HA terminology tends to 
> vary in meaning from vendor to vendor. For example, Steeleye has what they 
> call an active-active cluster, but what they mean by that is something 
> conceptually like:
> 
> * node1 is running Samba
> * node2 is running Apache
> * if either node dies, both apps run on the other node
> 

Good point.  

Has anyone here done iSCSI?  It may be possible to do raid over iSCSI.




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