[Novalug] NAS storage based on linux?

William Morse wmorse@americancouncils.org
Tue Jan 24 15:08:49 EST 2012


I can tell you what we have at my work, but I know are flying in the
dark. There may be more economical things to do. I'd love to see more
discussion on this subject.

We just bought from EMC a VNXe3100 with 6 "fast" drives (600GB each) and
6 slower drives (2TB) for a total of 9 TB usable space. We paid about
$20K.

The Linux support for the initial configuration utility was non-existent
(Despite the salesman's claim -- what a shock). But once it got set up,
we were able to use a web GUI to set up the file systems. It supports
NFS and it has been fairly easy to configure new NFS shares. Now all my
Linux servers can mount various slices of the storage. It has lots of
features that I don't even know if we can use. The device is geared
toward the windows/VMWare world.

We've been using it for about a month, so I am still not sure if I
"like" it or not.

-William Morse



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Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:22 PM
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Subject: [Novalug] NAS storage based on linux?

Hi.  I need at least 4TB of nas, but I would like to use it  to be
accessed by a Linux system, and so I need somethingwhich has an actual
Linux file system, rather than some strange OS which I cannot
manipulate.

Anything out there like that, or should I just get a computer and put
the drivesin?

Thanks in advance for any ideas on this subject.
-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com
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