From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 18:12:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A7B16A41F; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:12:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@nebcorp.com) Received: from ratchet.nebcorp.com (ratchet.nebcorp.com [205.217.153.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F5243D48; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:12:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@nebcorp.com) Received: by ratchet.nebcorp.com (Postfix, from userid 1014) id 65F3BD9825; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:12:37 -0700 From: Danny Howard To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050921181237.GI65449@ratchet.nebcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Reccomendations for FC-attached storage appliance? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:12:37 -0000 [NOTE: cross-posting to freebsd-scsi and -questions ... please reply direct to me, or followup to just ONE list. I may post summary after.] Hello, I have spent the past few weeks confusing around with different vendors to find a cool external disk solution that might offer high performance, and high availability for our production database. My questio is two-fold: 1) Would anyone like to share a preferred storage solution? My dream is something where I can connect two FC controllers to two FreeBSD servers. If one controller fails, or if one server fails, I can still mount the same disks via the redundant server or controller. It sounds like most solutions have the disks on one controller or the other, so if a controller fails, the disks are inaccessible until you swap out the failed controller. The Applex Xserve RAID comes to mind. 2) Would anyone like to share a preferred HBA? I am constantly frustrated by suggested solutions because it seems that every disk appliance only ever supports one HBA. For example, the Apple ... only supports LSI7202XP. My research has found zero evidence that this is supported by FreeBSD. So, if that wont work, I should just run Linux? Or has someone stress-tested their favorite HBA and found it to be totally robust in some configuration ... ? Thanks a bunch! Sincerely, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/