No. A NAS server that supports MPIO would be best, redundancy + performance. I.e. RH5.x or CentOS 5.x would be a good choice. I use Ubuntu 8.04 w/Samba/NFS/rsync etc....
Not every OS supports MPIO and relies on teaming or bonding interfaces. Which will work but not provide additional bandwidth.
When I searched for NAS Gateways it seems that this appliances only connects disk arrays via FC SAN, I didn`t find any NAS Gateway appliance that can connect disk arrays via IP SAN (iSCSSI).
Re: Exanet that's true. My impression was you were looking for low cost / no cost solutions. The exanet stuff is very high end indeed.
One I'm just starting to experiment with is the Nexenta Project. http://www.nexenta.org/ That includes an ESX ready VM. The Web interface is very nice. The free version supports 12TB of in use space and it does connect to EQL arrays. Does NFS v4/v3/v2, CFS, rsync, WebDAV, etc.. It's a WIP but does offer ZFS which is a pretty scalable filesystem with some amazing features, dedup, compression, etc...
There's the commercial version as well http://www.nexenta.com
"Re: Exanet that's true. My impression was you were looking for low cost / no cost solutions. The exanet stuff is very high end indeed.
One I'm just starting to experiment with is the Nexenta Project. http://www.nexenta.org/ That includes an ESX ready VM. The Web interface is very nice. The free version supports 12TB of in use space and it does connect to EQL arrays. Does NFS v4/v3/v2, CFS, rsync, WebDAV, etc.. It's a WIP but does offer ZFS which is a pretty scalable filesystem with some amazing features, dedup, compression, etc...
There's the commercial version as well http://www.nexenta.com
Regards,
-don
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There is a rumor about a new iSCSI NAS Gateway from Equallogic with a nice price maybe in the next year.
NexentaStor works with Equallogic arrays, as noted. It may be interesting to note given recent news that NexentaStor is also tightly integrated with Compellent to provide its NAS capabilities. NexentaStor can talk iSCSI, FC, AoE at the backend and present NFS, CIFS, FTP, etc. out the front. And more recently it has been shown that NexentaStor can provide extremely high performing cloud storage:
http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/technology/kts-private-cloud-faster-than-amazon-rackspace?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+neoTactics+(Cloudscaling)
Donald_Williams
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August 24th, 2010 16:00
No. A NAS server that supports MPIO would be best, redundancy + performance. I.e. RH5.x or CentOS 5.x would be a good choice. I use Ubuntu 8.04 w/Samba/NFS/rsync etc....
Not every OS supports MPIO and relies on teaming or bonding interfaces. Which will work but not provide additional bandwidth.
-don
Guillermo.diez
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August 26th, 2010 01:00
Donald_Williams
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August 26th, 2010 07:00
I haven't checked is FreeNAS does or not.
-don
Guillermo.diez
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September 8th, 2010 23:00
Donald_Williams
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September 9th, 2010 08:00
One I'm just starting to experiment with is the Nexenta Project. http://www.nexenta.org/ That includes an ESX ready VM. The Web interface is very nice. The free version supports 12TB of in use space and it does connect to EQL arrays. Does NFS v4/v3/v2, CFS, rsync, WebDAV, etc.. It's a WIP but does offer ZFS which is a pretty scalable filesystem with some amazing features, dedup, compression, etc...
There's the commercial version as well http://www.nexenta.com
Regards,
-don
Guillermo.diez
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September 27th, 2010 06:00
Donald_Williams
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September 27th, 2010 07:00
-don
brad103
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December 9th, 2010 21:00
http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/technology/kts-private-cloud-faster-than-amazon-rackspace?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+neoTactics+(Cloudscaling)