[Linux-cluster] Recommendation of SAN devices

Peng Yu pengyu.ut at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 13:13:27 UTC 2010


Hi,

Does anybody have any experience with any vendors of storage devices
(for performance) for cluster file system? Or could you please
recommend where I should look for relevant information? I googled, but
there are just so much information that I don't know where to start
with.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Essentially, I want to build a cluster where multiple machines
> (multi-core) access the same cluster file system (say using GFS). Each
> machine might
> concurrently access the same file system for write or read. The
> processes running on these machines are I/O intensity. I think that if
> each machine could use hundreds of MB/s I/O. I want the whole system
> be scalable in the sense that
> more machines can be added without making the I/O the bottleneck.
>
> The SRX model in the following webpage is a choice. However, I'd like
> to see all the possible choices from different vendors so that I can
> make a more informative decision. Could you please share me some
> insights that you have or point me to a mailing list where I might get
> some answers?
>
> http://www.coraid.com/products/index.html
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peng
>



-- 
Regards,
Peng




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