[Linux-cluster] WebFarm using RedHat cluster suite ?

[Marc Grimme]

Hello,
I think the best way to tell what storage or infrastructure would be the best 
is to know more about your current setup and what issues with that you want 
to get ahead of.
For example: if you really think about using iscsi, I don't think that SCSI or 
SATA drives make a big difference - depending on how many drives you use. But 
if all webservers currently have locally attached disk drives you want scale 
too linar with exchanging and IDE/parallel-SCSI Bus with an network topology 
using Ethernet. 
But my opinion is: if you have a lot of I/Os make yourself mostly independent 
from the latency of an ethernet and rethink about using Fibre-Channel with 
GFS.

But the best advices could be made if you make your current setup and the 
things you want to achieve more clearly.

Regards Marc.

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 22:01, FM wrote:
> Thanks for the reply,
> I read about SATA storage but we sync from lan to dmz, so there is lots
> of r/w.
>
> Michael Will wrote:
> >I am surprised you use SCSI drives on the storage if
> >you are price sensitive, usually SATA is the better
> >bang for the buck unless you are doing databases with
> >lots of small read and writes.
> >
> >Michael
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com
> >[mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of FM
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:34 PM
> >To: Redhat Cluster
> >Subject: [Linux-cluster] WebFarm using RedHat cluster suite ?
> >
> >Hello everybody,
> >
> >Is redhat cluster suite (RHEL 4 ) a good candidate for a webfarm ?
> >My setup would be : several servers (1U AMd dual core) connected to
> >iscsi storage array.
> >
> >Is Iscsi a good choice (SAN prices are too high for us) for hardware ?
> >Our network is GB.
> >We will have SCSI 10KRPM + read and write cache on the SCSI card + RAID5
> >thanks !
> >
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