Re: [Xen-users] Re: Re: Redundant server setup

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Javier Guerra wrote:
> On Friday 12 May 2006 8:31 am, Matthew Wild wrote:
>   
> > But as far as I can see, DRBD only provides twin machine shared storage. I
> > have a few servers I want to use as dom0s and since they are generally
> > simple 1U boxes I want them as clean from local storage as possible. The
> >     
> this is a setup i'd be willing to use:
> (of course, if money isn't an issue, i'd buy some big iron storage from EMC or 
> such)
> 1) a box with two GigE and big SATA disks, (there's a nice supermicro 3U box 
> with 15 bays, i'd do two 7-disk RAID5 plus one hotspare).  Call it S1A, and 
> the two volumes S1A1 and S1A2.
>   
What does anybody think about something like:
- 2 boxes, each with two GigE
- multiple SCSI drives per box
- mounting all the drives with  iSCSI
- using a volume manager (EVLM perhaps) to build shared and raided space 
on top of the drives

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