EXTERNAL:OT question about NAS units

[Matty Sarro]

That's the idea :) We've been trying to work around the lack of
offerings we could find by utilizing a cheap iSCSI san but for the
most part the clustered filesystem increases complexity a bit too much
when using GFS/2. Which leaves us the choice of either adding a server
to act as a head end and serve out the SAN via NFS, or else to just
find a NAS unit that meets our needs.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Burke, Thomas (ES) <tg.burke at ngc.com> wrote:
> I will suggest that you get one that supports NFS.  I have one that
> exports only SAMBA shares, and it seems that keeping it mounted on the
> linux server is a bit unreliable.  Took me a while to figure out why my
> server disk space was full until I realized that the mount points at /
> were full of files, and that the RAID directory structure was strangely
> empty...
>
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> Hey everyone. I know this is off topic but I'm hoping someone can
> point me in a direction that would help. Right now we're looking to
> implement a simple NAS solution, offering about 24TB of storage. We
> want simple boxes that can be purchased fairly cheaply to add some
> extra storage space. They will be for nothing but logs, so inexpensive
> midline drives can be used. HP has a number of offerings (x1600's,
> etc), as does Dell (Powervault series). The problem is that all of
> these devices require AC power at the low end. The locations where
> these devices will be deployed only offer DC power. We'd have to look
> into a massive head-ended solution for something that offers more.
> I've tried contacting a number of third party storage vendors (Dakota
> storage, etc) but have not received a single response.
>
> Any suggestions on other storage companies would really be appreciated.
> -Matty
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