[LUNI] ISO a Linux Journal article

[Williamson, Brad]

I've done this already, iSCSI or vBlade is easier and doesn't require
Coraid's ataoe sleds or racks for the drives. Expandability is limited
to how many drives you can shoehorn into a server internally or
externally, but 3Ware controllers + big drives = big honkin arrays. 

I'm putting in a (small for us) 2.5TB iSCSI SAN later this month with HP
DL380's and 300GB SCSI drives with gigabit connections to the nodes.
Testing has absolutely rocked so far, throughput on smaller files (
filesize < (RAM on sanbox)) screams since it all goes to cache first.
Throughput is much higher than the big EMC Symmetrix fiber channel array
it is replacing.

http://www.ntbrad.com/wordpress/?p=223 ATAoE
http://www.ntbrad.com/wordpress/?p=224 iSCSI

If you need infinite storage, Coraid's solution gets you out of the box
= storage dilemma, but this packed server = storage has definitely been
done to ludicrous sizes (http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php)

Good luck,

Brad

My employer has no control over my thoughts and ramblings.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: luni-bounces at luni.org [mailto:luni-bounces at luni.org] On Behalf Of
Mike Scott
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:50 PM
To: luni at luni.org
Subject: [LUNI] ISO a Linux Journal article

A friend of mine is planning a big RAID array for backups, etc.
It needs to be big and also expandable.
I remember an LJ article within the past year or so about a guy doing an
archival project with AoE blades.
Trouble is, I can't find it.  I've scanned trough my dead-tree editions
and the LJ article search is practically useless.  Can anyone remember
the date of the article?
- Mike Scott


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