From: "Beginner" <dermot@sciencephoto.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: SAN for beginners
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:54:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45364E2B.28189.21A064A0@dermot.sciencephoto.com> (raw)
Hi All,
I need to add some about 10TB of storage to our infrasturce and went
along to an storage exhibition to find out what was available. The
biggest grey area for me was the filesystem and management. Without
being too open-ended, I want to get some idea of what Linux-based
solution I could use. All the manufacturers I talked to had no idea
about how to manage and share their products unless they were Windows
based even though they claim to support Linux.
I had been presuming I would install the SAN gateway and the storage
arrays, use LVM for the filesystem and Samba to share the data to
Windows user and install Fibre-Channel cards to the other 3 servers
that need access to the data. However I think that there is more to
it than that and I could use some help understanding how it all hangs
together and what (Linux) options there are. If there servers are to
see the storage as block devices I imagine there is some proprierty
software needed for the OS's.
Currently I use FC4 on my servers and the are about 40 Windows users
that need to access the data as well.
Any thoughts or advice is much appreciated.
Thanx,
Dp.
next reply other threads:[~2006-10-18 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-18 14:54 Beginner [this message]
2006-10-18 15:04 ` SAN for beginners ycsapo
2006-10-19 6:34 ` urgrue
2006-10-19 16:09 ` Brett Zimmerman
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