CPU & RAM in a storage box

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

On top of rpath Linux, which is the root of all evil. Also - although I have
implemented quite a few of these, OpenFiler suffers from various bugs
and shortcomings. Still - in the "free like beer" area - it is good enough
for most purposes.

Ez

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2010/9/10 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>
> >
> > Hi people,
> > I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my VPS business. I did
> some checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to
> have a decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my
> own. (12 TB before all the RAID stuff, after that it would lot less). All
> other solutions are very expensive (example: IBM EXP 3000 costs here 6K nis
> without a single hard disk).
> > I'm planning to use hardware based RAID card, minimal Linux distribution
> and have some offers like iSCSI, NFS, CIFS - the usual suspects.
>
> How about looking at openfiler (http://www.openfiler.com/), consider
> whether you want to use it for that solution and see what kind of
> hardware they recommend?
>
> I have never used it but considered it before and as far as I remember
> it's an integration of SAN management interface on top of CentOS.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Amos
>
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