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All I do is go into the Infortrend once to setup the RAID as I see fit, setup the iSCSI extents, config the iSCSI ports, push the config to my CI repository and then setup the blade to initiate the iSCSI connection to mount the drive. In my old gig the server responsible for capturing/storing data dumps from the CME data feed is just a dual socket blade with a 10GbE card connected to an Infortrend Eonstor DS1016v2 (which is a standalone array that deals with the RAID/disk management logic, has 16 drives and talks iSCSI through the expansion 10GbE adapter) - it was a Dell R620 running Nexenta until I got sick and tired of dealing with constant lockups (that has more to do with not enough RAM than anything else. So yeah, dedicated storage servers - I generally do not like the idea of making my storage server do too much, and I don't like machines where the RAID/volume configuration is stored on the same unit as the machine serving out information. If their controllers (which are typically Xeon SoCs if I remember my dearly departed FAS2240-2) die, you are still dead in the water. They don't run standard Linux/BSD out of the box, and I am pretty sure most of the nicer features (like dual controller/seamless failover) requires licensing. This way I could have a larger array for playing with even more hard drives.Ĭlick to expand.No, Netapps, Isilons and etc are completely different beasts. Looks like a housing with 14 or 24+ backplane for 2.5" hot-swap SAS drives with double hot-swap power supplies and double redundant controllers (which look like blade CPU servers). There are SAS array SAN appliances, "NETAPP" makes alot of them. Ok, I think I discovered what you could have been talking about - maybe. This should get me started and running for hopefully a year or two before I outgrow that again, then figure out how I would continue to insure the safety of many terabytes of data, since it isn't like I can just grab another hard drive off the shelf and back that stuff up to that while I make another new SAN/NAS storage server.
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What I picked out was this hp dl360 GEN 7, it has 8 SAS drive bays, (1) Xeon 5660, and PC3 ram. In the case of the NetAPP boxes, they all have dual-redundant controllers for either load balancing or backup purposes and each of those controllers are actually a whole computer system each itself with its own ram CPU's and pci bus. I was thinking I could use ISCSI initator to attach a FreeNas box to a SAS array, but that SAS array actually has to have the whole CPU/motherboard thing on it already to manage the RAID, cache, i/o etc - so, that would defeat the purpose of an external FreeNas appliance, if I had to have another machine to manage the data that was managed by the first machine. The world is not without options, I tell you. Or they have the SAS array shelf, with 40-gigabit connectors that I can wire up to an existing server with a 40gb PCI card in it, to attach the array to that, instead of combining the big array and the server into one large electric burning heat-fan itself. This way I could have a larger array for playing with even more hard drives. Click to expand.Ok, I think I discovered what you could have been talking about - maybe.