[ale] [EXTERNAL] Re: Distributed filesystems?

[Allen Beddingfield]

"Cheap" has a couple of  different meanings in this case:
1.  Cheaper than offering storage on our SAN
2.  Not having to buy it, because it is already on hand.

As for security for it, we had CEPH on a dedicated VLAN, and just bound an interface to that VLAN for each host.  NFS was IP based, and we also transitioned over to using iSCSI targets at some point.
We treated it just like an iSCSI SAN/NAS.
Allen B.

--
Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu


________________________________________
From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 4:25 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Cc: Steve Litt
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ale] Distributed filesystems?

Allen Beddingfield via Ale said on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:28:09 +0000

Sooo.... I'm looking into MooseFS and GlusterFS at this point,
>as they are much simpler to deploy and manage (at least to me)
>compared with CEPH.  Do any of you have experiences with these?
>Thoughts? The use case is to use CHEAP (think lots of servers full of
>10TB SATA drives and 1.2TB SAS drives)

Our definitions of cheap are different. Each 7200 rpm 10TB SATA costs
upward of $400.

> hardware to share out big NFS

What are you doing to make NFS secure? Are you using NIS, or something
different?

The idea of a distributed filesystem, on my LAN and NOT on the
Internet, seems cool to me.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful
Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo