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Re: [Xen-users] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

To: rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?
From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:43:51 -0500
Cc: Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-
>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers
>> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:16 AM
>> To: xen-users
>> Subject: [Xen-users] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?
>>
>> If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm
> referring more to
>> larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system.
>
> We have CORAID for our Xen deployment.  Simple, inexpensive, effective.
>
> They offer an appliance to combine multiple Ethernet-connected storage
> arrays into one (or more) logical arrays, so you can grow your storage
> as large as you like, within the limits of power, space and switch ports
> you can provide.
>
> -Jeff
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________


That's kind of what I'm looking for but it seems this is a problem
with some NAS's. All the traffic to the SAN (multiple NAS's connected
together) travels through the head node to the "slaves", which
effectively cause a lot of congestion on the whole SAN, even with 10GB
NIC's.



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