what kind of storage do you use on servers?

Submitted by raimon on Fri 28 Jul 2006

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SAN  <-> 15%96 votes
DAS  <-> 3%21 votes
NAS  <-> 11%71 votes
AoE  <-> 2%15 votes
internal drives  <-> 68%437 votes
Total 640 votes

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Re: what kind of storage do you use on servers?
Posted by mangler (24.84.xx.xx) on Sat 29 Jul 2006 at 08:56
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If someone was interested in buying me a SAN, DAS or AoE hardware, i would gladly switch to a SAN. But I'm currently using linux cause we can't afford anything any fancy. Anyone interested in donating to a student run organization?

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Re: what kind of storage do you use on servers?
Posted by Anonymous (203.129.xx.xx) on Sat 29 Jul 2006 at 10:32
Linux distributions like FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org) and OpenFiler (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openfiler/) must make it affordable to set up cost-effective NAS.

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Re: what kind of storage do you use on servers?
Posted by rodaballo (213.73.xx.xx) on Sat 29 Jul 2006 at 21:13
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FreeNAS is FreeBSD based, not Linux based.

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Re: what kind of storage do you use on servers?
Posted by nicc777 (196.25.xx.xx) on Sun 30 Jul 2006 at 18:54
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Unfortunately Debian does not work too well with most modern SAN deployments. Don't get me wrong - it does work, but you do not have all the features always (depending on the technology you use).

I voted Internal drives, as we only use the SAN for backups on our Debian systems. The RedHat systems however has production mount points on the SAN as SAN support is much better.

Just my 2c.

Cheers

Nico

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Re: what kind of storage do you use on servers?
Posted by deadcat (72.25.xx.xx) on Sun 30 Jul 2006 at 19:37
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NSLU2 running debian. (=

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Re: what kind of storage do you use on servers?
Posted by eric (194.2.xx.xx) on Mon 31 Jul 2006 at 13:51
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Good synchronisation for this pool, as I am currently looking for the different technologies we can use with Linux to provide block device level network storage, as we can't afford a SAN.

For the moment, i have found GNBD and DRBD, and AoE.
But i would like also to share this storage with Windows servers at block device, but it seems that there is no possibility, (no existing drivers for this OS).

So, except for the problem of Windows, anyone got some good experiences with these technologies, does it work well? Is it reliable?

ps : it seems that OpenFiler provide iSCSI support, so i could normally share my storage (DAS) with Windows OS, am i right?

:eric:
http://blog.sietch-tabr.com

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Re: what kind of storage do you use on servers?
Posted by daemon (146.231.xx.xx) on Fri 4 Aug 2006 at 10:53
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Well, I voted DAS, and not just because I like to root for the underdog ;-)

We have a mix if internal drives (which I sort of DAS if you squit at the definition), and some external library racks. However, we're in the process of organising some SAN hardware testing and will likely be recieving hardware from a few sources within the next few weeks -- anyone got any favourites/experiences to share and offer while I get ready to think about storage designs?

Also, could anyone offer and idea as to how good the EMC linux solutions are?

Cheers.

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#8
Re: what kind of storage do you use on servers?
Posted by Anonymous (82.37.xx.xx) on Thu 10 Aug 2006 at 14:10
We use all apart from AoE. All servers have at least 2 disks RAID1 to boot. We use SAN for virtual machines and file/email/database storage, and NAS in some departments for file services.

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