Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:44:42 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xserve RAID on FreeBSD Message-ID: <86wubn1qlx.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: <3F7BF4B6.6030007@cheasy.de> (Christoph Sold's message of "Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:49:42 %2B0200") References: <62587.148.243.211.1.1065086659.squirrel@mail.unixmexico.com> <3F7BF4B6.6030007@cheasy.de>
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Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de> writes: > Basically, this unit is a Mac OS X Server providing storage over the > fibre using the usual suspects (NFS, SMB/CIFS(Samba), AFS). Don't know > if anybody tried this using fiber channel transport. I do not believe this is correct. I believe the Xserve RAID is a 3U box of HW-RAIDed IDE disks with redundant power supply and RAID controllers, with FibreChannel connections to a server. Price is outstanding, 2.5TB for about $11K. The Xserve is a sweet 1U OSX/UNIX box for which you can buy reasonably-priced FC adapters to connect it to the RAID. The RAID box has 2 FC interfaces so you could connect 2 Xserve boxes, or dual-connect a single Xserve, or connect it to a FC switch. The Xserver(s) can then export the FC-connected disk via NFS, CIFS, etc. I'd love to see a front end server acting like a NetApp. FreeBSD-5.x's snapshot feature gives you one of the nicest features of the NetApp. I'd love to hear if anyone's doing this.
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