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I am trying to find out a solution for a storage system to
hold about 1TB data which I might need to expand in future.
QUESTION:I am trying to find out a solution for a storage system to
hold about 1TB data which I might need to expand in future.
Most importantly I want to share same data storage for
different host servers i.e. different people will be able to
upload/download data through different load balanced servers.
What could be the best hardware and software solution for that?
ANSWER: -Try SANERGY from Tivoli at http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/sanergy/
or Transoft call FibreNet http://www.transoftnetworks.com/vid/index.html
-If you need to mix NT and Unix, you should consider a network appliance server.
If you are only with windows, you could consider a raid system with netware
font ends (they have a clustering solution with shared disks). If you are Unix
only or mostly unix then a cluster of SGI servers will do the job. There is a
special version of xlv which allows different hosts to share disks. The samba
version for SGI supports concurrent access (locking) to data from both unix and
windows.
For disk things are murky. FC is still expensive when you throw in the FC
switches. It might be that you can get away with a RAID with multiple scsi
interfaces. When segate releases their 180GB disks it might be feasible to use
them in a server and share them with NFS/Samba. It all depends on your
performance constraints.
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