RHEL6 as a NAS?

[Dmitry Makovey]

Hi everybody,

we're building our mini-NAS in-house appliance based on RHEL6. It's main 
purpose is to provide storage to test/devel servers/VMs. After attending 
LinuxCon in Vancouver it sounds like most places are using NFS as a "quick-
fix". What I dislike about NFS idea so far is implementation of NFS4 hinges on 
kerberos availability (and I'd rather not poke there). We were considering 
iSCSI as well, but it sounded like it's not "prime-time ready" (?). 

Any other alternatives that are available on RH platform out-of-the-box 
without having to purchase separate license for clustering platform etc.? 
FCoE? Considering it's the test systems we're not too concerned at the moment 
about selection, but realistically we'd like to expand that experiment over 
into production one day so working with something fairly stable and expandable 
from start would be a bonus. 

P.S.
Saw that RH purchased Gluster. Does it mean we may get gluster as part of RHEL 
subscription?

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Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
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