From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 14 8:31:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448A437C885 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13D76R-0003X5-00; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:10:11 -0700 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:10:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Tim Tsai Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: centralized storage for server farm? In-Reply-To: <20000714031709.A3274@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Tim Tsai wrote: > 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 IBM's Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) "Shark" would work, but it might be overkill. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message