attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

[Michael Ben-Nes]

Hi,
I would consider buying used server and fill it up with hard drives. Then
using Linux or OpenSolaris to manage them.

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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have a few PowerEdge 860's which I mostly converted from our
> previous-generation Windows based system to Xen hosts for development
> on top of CentOS 5 (the production system is now mostly hosted
> abroad).
>
> These servers have space for only two internal disks and I'd like to
> try to convert a couple of them into servers of shared storage.
> I'm thinking of just setting them up to sync their disks using DRBD
> and providing access to the rest of the network via iSCSI.
>
> I'm looking for a way to attach lots of disks to them. So far the only
> options I found are MD1000/3000 from Dell, which are a bit too
> expensive for such a side-project.
>
> Is there another economical (and sane, speed-wise) way to get lots of
> disks on these system's bus?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Amos
>
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