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Dan Stromberg
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Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:25 am Post subject:
30 terabyte solution? |
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We're needing to get specs on a storage solution with the following
attributes:
1) Costs between $50k and $200k
2) Can store 30 terabytes with a single, unified namespace
3) Doesn't have to be blazing fast. We've only discussed RAID solutions
internally so far, but I suspect they might find a tape jukebox or HSM
solution acceptable
4) Will interoperate with AIX in some way. Reexporting a mount over NFS
is acceptable, but if AIX can use the filesystem natively, so much the
better.
5) Some expandability would be good, with a continued, single namespace
Does this solution happen to allow the use of 251G SATA
drives? We have a lot of those. :)
Thanks! |
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Charles Morrall
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Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:34 am Post subject:
Re: 30 terabyte solution? |
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"Dan Stromberg" <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu> skrev i meddelandet
news:pan.2004.11.17.02.26.21.727765@dcs.nac.uci.edu...
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We're needing to get specs on a storage solution with the following
attributes:
1) Costs between $50k and $200k
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Speced an iSCSI/SATA array with 31TB raw capacity using 250GB SATA drives.
Costs about $95k
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2) Can store 30 terabytes with a single, unified namespace
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I'm not really a unix guy, so I'm not sure what "single, unified namespace"
would mean. I'd have to carve out 15 LUNs, each 2TB.
| Quote: | 3) Doesn't have to be blazing fast. We've only discussed RAID solutions
internally so far, but I suspect they might find a tape jukebox or HSM
solution acceptable
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It won't be blazingly fast, but it will allow 2x1Gbit iSCSI and hw RAID.
| Quote: | 4) Will interoperate with AIX in some way. Reexporting a mount over NFS
is acceptable, but if AIX can use the filesystem natively, so much the
better.
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AIX seems to have an iSCSI initiator driver, so the storage space will be
natively available.
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5) Some expandability would be good, with a continued, single namespace
Does this solution happen to allow the use of 251G SATA
drives? We have a lot of those. :)
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It does use 250GB SATA drives, but the solution I speced uses a hotplug
carrier and probably some special firmware. They're Maxtor drives behind the
OEM label.
/charles
Feel free to contact me directly if you need the details, but I'm not going
to advertise any special brands here. |
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Faeandar
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Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:49 am Post subject:
Re: 30 terabyte solution? |
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:25:38 GMT, Dan Stromberg
<strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu> wrote:
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We're needing to get specs on a storage solution with the following
attributes:
1) Costs between $50k and $200k
2) Can store 30 terabytes with a single, unified namespace
3) Doesn't have to be blazing fast. We've only discussed RAID solutions
internally so far, but I suspect they might find a tape jukebox or HSM
solution acceptable
4) Will interoperate with AIX in some way. Reexporting a mount over NFS
is acceptable, but if AIX can use the filesystem natively, so much the
better.
5) Some expandability would be good, with a continued, single namespace
Does this solution happen to allow the use of 251G SATA
drives? We have a lot of those. :)
Thanks!
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You mention the namespace twice, what namespace are you referring to?
NFS? Or do you have something else in place?
For the amount of storage you want at the price you want there a
likely several vendros that can fit that bill, the question is are yo
looking for this as DAS, SAN array, or NAS?
For DAS Nexsan has been good to me. And you can easily get the amount
of space you're talking about within your budget. Any OS can use it.
Can't speak to NAS much. I know mainly NetApp and there's not much
you're gonna get in that price range.
Nexsan can do SAN array's in that price point too. In fact it may be
the same box that is DAS, just with fiber ports fronting it.
~F |
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Dan Stromberg
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Thu Nov 18, 2004 7:38 am Post subject:
Re: 30 terabyte solution? |
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:49:26 +0000, Faeandar wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:25:38 GMT, Dan Stromberg
strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu> wrote:
We're needing to get specs on a storage solution with the following
attributes:
1) Costs between $50k and $200k
2) Can store 30 terabytes with a single, unified namespace
3) Doesn't have to be blazing fast. We've only discussed RAID solutions
internally so far, but I suspect they might find a tape jukebox or HSM
solution acceptable
4) Will interoperate with AIX in some way. Reexporting a mount over NFS
is acceptable, but if AIX can use the filesystem natively, so much the
better.
5) Some expandability would be good, with a continued, single namespace
Does this solution happen to allow the use of 251G SATA
drives? We have a lot of those. :)
Thanks!
You mention the namespace twice, what namespace are you referring to?
NFS? Or do you have something else in place?
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The primary owner of the IBM SP2 compute cluster this would be hooked to,
very much wants a single-filesystem solution for this.
| Quote: | For the amount of storage you want at the price you want there a
likely several vendros that can fit that bill, the question is are yo
looking for this as DAS, SAN array, or NAS?
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Anything that'll work reliably, not glacially slow (but not necessarily
that fast either), and give a single filesystem. And it's gotta work with
AIX 5.1 in some way.
| Quote: | For DAS Nexsan has been good to me. And you can easily get the amount
of space you're talking about within your budget. Any OS can use it.
Can't speak to NAS much. I know mainly NetApp and there's not much
you're gonna get in that price range.
Nexsan can do SAN array's in that price point too. In fact it may be
the same box that is DAS, just with fiber ports fronting it.
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Thanks, I'll check into Nexsan.
Anybody else out there had good or bad experiences with Nexsan? |
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David
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Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:39 pm Post subject:
Re: 30 terabyte solution? |
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Dan Stromberg <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.11.18.02.39.43.787416@dcs.nac.uci.edu>...
| Quote: | On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:49:26 +0000, Faeandar wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:25:38 GMT, Dan Stromberg
strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu> wrote:
We're needing to get specs on a storage solution with the following
attributes:
1) Costs between $50k and $200k
2) Can store 30 terabytes with a single, unified namespace
3) Doesn't have to be blazing fast. We've only discussed RAID solutions
internally so far, but I suspect they might find a tape jukebox or HSM
solution acceptable
4) Will interoperate with AIX in some way. Reexporting a mount over NFS
is acceptable, but if AIX can use the filesystem natively, so much the
better.
5) Some expandability would be good, with a continued, single namespace
Does this solution happen to allow the use of 251G SATA
drives? We have a lot of those. :)
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Another option is a clustered filesystem like SGI's CXFS. That supports
AIX clients plus other platforms. More expensive than NAS but may
be better in a heterogeneous environment, and will perform better.
David |
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Jan-Frode Myklebust
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Sat Nov 20, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject:
Re: 30 terabyte solution? |
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On 2004-11-18, Dan Stromberg <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu> wrote:
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The primary owner of the IBM SP2 compute cluster this would be hooked to,
very much wants a single-filesystem solution for this.
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I would consider buying a bunch of fibre channel Nexsan ataboys, or
Infortrend eonstore units (or maybe there's a similar FAStT system from
IBM?). Connect them via fibre channel to all SP2's and run GPFS as
cluster filesystem. That should give you a single filesystem, with
locally connected filesystem type performance and very high
availability compared to a NFS solution.
-jf |
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