[ale] NAS suggestions

[Robert L. Harris]

I have a Coraid SR (disk box) exporting to a CLN (stripped down Linux 
head end).  The CLN
provides samba and NFS.  The ESX servers mount their guest images off 
the CLN.  Unless
the CLN is under heavy load (unrestrained backups or a bad mkfs on a 
disk in the SR) this
has worked great but it's not very resilient to the lockup due to heavy 
load.


On 1/21/09 1:48 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Robert L. Harris wrote:
>    
>> I need a solid NAS solution that'll give 3-5 TB without costing 50K.
>> I've been using
>> a CoRAID solution I really liked but when doing an "mkfs" on a drive
>> this morning
>> it threw a bad block.  As a result of dealing with the bad IO the NFS
>> effectively
>> stopped and the whole NAS basically stopped responding to NFS traffic
>>      
> which
>    
>> killed my ESX servers.
>>
>>      
>
> That doesn't sound fun.
>
> Trying to make sure I understand the entire picture: You have a coRaid
> box exporting disks using ata-over-ethernet to another box (the NAS)
> that runs NFS and exports files to multiple boxes running ESX?
>
> -Brian
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