[ale] Recommendation for SCSI array vendor?

[Greg Freemyer]

I think a customer of mine used a Dell 220s that way once.

I don't recall the details and I don't know if Dell still sells them.

Greg

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>  Greg -
>
> I'm not really looking to have parallel arrays - just one with a couple
> of little drives.  And I don't need to share an entire working
> filesystem; just daemon config files.
>
> I don't want to use FC because I don't want to add another breakable
> piece (the switch).
>
> - Jeff
>
> On 10/15/10 11:43 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> I did that with software raid running on 2 fail-over nodes long ago.
>> Obviously it was cheaper from a hardware perspective, but I never felt
>> comfortable.
>>
>> And due to a very strange IT support issue where power was pulled
>> without a formal shutdown, the raid had to rebuilt from backup tapes
>> about 3 years into its service life.  That event was pretty expensive
>> and would have paid for a proper setup.
>>
>> But I don't know of anybody still making redundant external parallel
>> connected intelligent SCSI arrays.  The ones I've seen in the last few
>> years are either FC or iSCSI.  Maybe you should consider one of those
>> depending on your performance needs.
>>
>> If you really do want SCSI, you may need to look for used gear on
>> eBay.  I've worked with the DEC ^h^h^h Compaq ^h^h^h^h^h^h HP
>> Storageworks stuff and it was very good 10 years ago.  (ie. When they
>> still offered it with SCSI connections.)
>>
>> Good Luck
>> Greg
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Jeff Hubbs<jhubbslist at att.net>  wrote:
>>>   I'm looking for a small, well-made rack-mount SCSI enclosure I can
>>> connect between two servers in a STONITH failover cluster.  Can someone
>>> recommend a vendor who can set me up with one as well as a couple of PCI
>>> SCSI cards or RAID controllers and cabling?  Next International in CA
>>> (isn't pretty much everybody in CA?) doesn't have such on their Web site.
>>>
>>> - Jeff
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