[ale] Giant storage system suggestions

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

>On 7/12/2012 04:36, Barlow, Jim D wrote:
>>
>>
>> As Jeff Layton says:
>>
>>> If you want to go a bit cheaper, then I recommend going the
>>> Gluster route. You can get it for free and it only takes a bunch
>>> of servers. However, if the data is important, then build two
>>> copies of the hardware and rsync between them - at least you
>>> have a backup copy at some point.
>>
>>> Good luck
>>> Jeff
>>
>> Alex:
>>
>> It is a great time to check  out Gluster http://gluster.org as of the
>3.3 release.  Red Hat has put a lot into the project lately.   I've
>been testing it for my own uses and have been delighted with it.   It
>may complement your ideas.
>> I've ordered some inexpensive x86_64 hardware  function as Gluster
>bricks for my own elastically scalable storage.     It mounts as a high
>performance fuse file system or NFS, with a Samba shim you are good to
>go with CIFS.
>
>I took a look at Gluster but I don't think I want to go that route.  I 
>want to have the fewest number of machines/OSes to maintain (ideally 
>just one but maybe two if the array gets too big for one machine). 
>This 
>would be especially important at work where I can't get more than one
>or 
>two network IPs.  The maintenance requirements to keep a half a dozen
>or 
>more machines up to date in software is a lot more work than just one 
>that I can leave under my desk and check on once in a while.
>
>So I think I'm still going to be leaning towards one machine and a pile
>
>of drives for now.
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Hi Alex,

Caveat, I'm not a giant storage expert, but ...

* Cost may be obnoxious (don't know) but what about this

http://www.drobo.com/products/business/b1200i/index.php

You could do 24 tb in one chassis with 2 tb drives.

* Re only 2 ip's, could you stick your server behind a nat router at work?  Then you could jave lots of ip's behind the router.  Also, if you could run ipv6, you could probably get 50000 ip's.

Sincerely,

Ron




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