From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 8 19:24: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from stumpy.dannyland.org (stumpy.dannyland.org [209.157.133.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1157E14ED0 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyman@stumpy.dannyland.org) Received: by stumpy.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CEFCF3DBD; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:23:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 19:23:55 -0800 From: dannyman To: "Randy A. Katz" Cc: Tom , Steve Kaczkowski , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Infortrend RAID / Extending FBSD filesystem? Message-ID: <20000108192355.Q16985@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <20000105222012.E29204@stumpy.dannyland.org> <3.0.5.32.20000108191338.039c5b60@ccsales.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000108191338.039c5b60@ccsales.com>; from Randy A. Katz on Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 07:13:38PM -0800 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 07:13:38PM -0800, Randy A. Katz wrote: > Hi, > > I was told that the Sentinel's are not out yet but I just tried a 3101-u2g > and it works real well, but no way to monitor it remotely without doing > serial stuff. > > Does anyone know of a SCSI-TO-SCSI controller which has snmp or something > on the FreeBSD that can get a drive status reading? This will come in handy > big time when I have 100 servers that have RAID in one room! Infortrend's web site had a java-based software thing that could monitor over the serial port or SCSI bus and then send data back via SNMP to a Java console. They also have textual counterparts to this software, it sounds like. For my part, I've found Media Integrations to help my dirty work. I'm expecting a quote on one of these systems on Monday: http://www.mediainc.com/server_sitkacabrillo.htm They reccomended an Adjile encasing and a U2W Inforttrend controller with 7200 RPM cases. Then I asked myself if I might just have them build me the darn computer with a smaller RAID and reserve one of the Inforttrend's SCSI cables for expanding to an external RAID. Aside from the hot-swap bays, redundant power supplies, I'm thinking to install a backup system disk (just dd the image every one in a while, in the event of failure, just take the first system disk out) and a tape device, so I can dump system disk images and the RAID, in case of some nasty nasty disaster. A question I thought I'd share with you ... can FreeBSD handle with the idea of a disk/slice/partition being expanded, or would I have to newfs the entire disk? ie, can I build on to a RAID and extend the file system that FreeBSD sees? How messy is this, and should I consider a different OS for this functionality? (Maybe I should be looking at a Sparc?) Thanks, -danny -- come.to/dannyman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message