From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 14 1:25:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from hitline.ch (ccgate.com4u.ch [195.129.74.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E26C37BE32 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 01:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from micheal@com4u.ch) Received: from [195.129.74.2] (HELO [10.10.10.150]) by hitline.ch (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3b9) with ESMTP id 1720067 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:27:48 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: micheal%com4u.ch@mail.com4u.ch Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000714031709.A3274@futuresouth.com> References: <20000707122545.B8474@dan.emsphone.com> <20000714031709.A3274@futuresouth.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:21:09 +0200 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Michael O Shea Subject: Re: centralized storage for server farm? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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 Breitistrasse 7B PGP key available upon request. CH-5506 Maegenwil Tel: +41 62 896 46 26 Switzerland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message