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alternative to SAN, please advise
CentOS Now I am looking into how much building my own SAN with redundancy would run me. Just realized I had this option. -
alternative to SAN, please advise
xmsre, thanks for this information! My load balancing unit takes care of fault tolerance in case of hardware failure, that's what I meant. Looked at iscsi target software, a little pricey, and having two copies of 15 terabytes is not an option. I have played with designs using vmware, nas, das... -
alternative to SAN, please advise
Lee, yes, expense. The quotes I'm getting for the HBA cards, switch, HDs, are more than I think they should be. Instead of adding a switch and raid controller cards on the SAN end for intelligence, I am trying to find a setup with intelligence built on the controller cards on the application... -
alternative to SAN, please advise
Hello all! I am looking for an alternative to SAN storage solution. I am looking for a raid card that can stripe an array of 15 hard disks with raid 5 and then "share" the array with a raid card on another machine. Let me explain, I have two application servers that will fail over in case of...
