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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:21:09 +0200
From:      Michael O Shea <micheal@com4u.ch>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: centralized storage for server farm?
Message-ID:  <p04320404b5947d9943c1@[10.10.10.150]>
In-Reply-To: <20000714031709.A3274@futuresouth.com>
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>We are designing a server farm with diverse operating systems (FreeBSD,
>Solaris, Linux, and Windows NT/2000) but the majority will be FreeBSD.
>Can anybody recommend a high-density (fairly high number of hosts)
>SCSI<->SCSI RAID solution?  Ideally we can buy a box, with redundant
>modules, and can scale to about 20 hosts.  What are others doing on such
>server farms?
>
>We are already considering a NetApp but NFS isn't the right solution for
>everything.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tim
>
Well to us it was. The NetApp sits at the back with FiberChannel to 2 
3Com switches.
 From there many hosts mount it via NFS and CIFS. It is rock solid.
-- 


Micheal O Shea                         Email:micheal@com4u.ch
com4u.ch                                        http://www.com4u.ch
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