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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:55 AM

Hello all I need to provide a fault tolernate shared storage device for a
few servers with enough room to scale if needed.

I was looking at the STOREDGE 3310 NAS devices -
http://www.sun.com/storage/workgroup...0nas/index.xml

The only draw back with this is that it will be a single point of failure
and there is no way to link 2 of these guys together to work in sort of an
active/standby configuration.

Here is my senario I have an application that needs access to the same
static data running on multiple servers my first thought was to use 2 NFS
servers and have each of the application servers configured to use either
nfsserver1 or nfsserver2 if 1 isnt available.

Another approach I was thinking of using veritas cluster or sun cluster with
the 2 NFS servers.

And my last approach was to purchase a standalone T3 in a partner pair
configuration, but the problem with this approach is I will only be able to
support a minimum ammount of servers and a SAN type configuration is just
too costly for this application.

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:55 AM

"Rodrick Brown" <rbrown@[remove]doitt.nyc.gov> wrote in
news:s5GSb.114124$cM1.20021462@twister.nyc.rr.com:
> Here is my senario I have an application that needs access to the same
> static data running on multiple servers my first thought was to use 2
> NFS servers and have each of the application servers configured to use
> either nfsserver1 or nfsserver2 if 1 isnt available.

If the data is static, how about just rsync'ing the data from a master
server and leaving it on the local drives?

--
/Jesper Monsted

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:57 AM

Jesper Monsted <newsspam@rootweiler.dk.invalid> wrote in message news:<Xns9482D11677D5newsspamrootweilerdk@62.243.7 4.163>...
> "Rodrick Brown" <rbrown@[remove]doitt.nyc.gov> wrote in
> news:s5GSb.114124$cM1.20021462@twister.nyc.rr.com:
> > Here is my senario I have an application that needs access to the same
> > static data running on multiple servers my first thought was to use 2
> > NFS servers and have each of the application servers configured to use
> > either nfsserver1 or nfsserver2 if 1 isnt available.
>
> If the data is static, how about just rsync'ing the data from a master
> server and leaving it on the local drives?

From the Sun website...

<snip>

Sun StorEdge 3310 NAS - A rack-dense and scalable entry-level storage
solution designed specifically to complement the Sun's blade server
products.

* Up to 876-GB of storage * 2U, 12 drive form factor
* NFS & CIFS support * Rack-ready

SUN STORE MODELS STARTING AT: $18,995.00

<snip>

Won't this work for you?

Robert

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