Re: [Beowulf] Any recommendations for a good JBOD?

2010-02-20 Thread Gerry Creager
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:56:18PM -0500, Patrick Geoffray wrote: I'll second this recommendation. The Coraid servers are fairly +1. The AoE spec is very simple, I wish it would have more traction outside CoRaID. On the opposite, iSCSI is a utter mess with all the bad techn

Re: [Beowulf] Any recommendations for a good JBOD?

2010-02-20 Thread Joe Landman
Tim Cutts wrote: on between the two. We've been looking at iSCSI for our VMware setup in the future. As people have been saying, performance isn't stellar, an to get it decent you still end up paying a lot of money on networking kit, because ideally in that scenario you still want the storag

Re: [Beowulf] Any recommendations for a good JBOD?

2010-02-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:18:17PM -0600, Rahul Nabar wrote: > I totally agree! Especially for my "tiny" storage capacity (~5 > Terabytes) the cost of the non-disk accessories > (enclosure+controllers+cables) is turning out to be several fold that > of the disks themselves! That was pretty surpri

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Re: [Beowulf] Any recommendations for a good JBOD?

2010-02-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:56:18PM -0500, Patrick Geoffray wrote: > >I'll second this recommendation. The Coraid servers are fairly > > +1. The AoE spec is very simple, I wish it would have more traction > outside CoRaID. On the opposite, iSCSI is a utter mess with all the bad > technical choic

Re: [Beowulf] Any recommendations for a good JBOD?

2010-02-20 Thread Tim Cutts
On 19 Feb 2010, at 11:56 pm, Mark Hahn wrote: however, I'm not actually claiming iSCSI is prevalent. the protocol is relatively heavy-weight, and it's really only providing SAN access, not shared, file-level access, which is ultimately what most want... iSCSI seems fairly common in the virtu