Re: SAN solution wanted
Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm looking for an affordable SAN solution for a small network.
> Although I can parse the offers on the intertubes, I often fail to see
> if they're fully supported under linux (ia32, soon x86_64) and that
> their fw-400/800 port is really just "firewire" not some crippled
> socket only their windows-only driver could bring to life.
>
> In short: does anybody have a bit of experience to share regarding
> these SAN devices?
>
> And I think I really need SAN, because with NAS I'm bound to their
> NFS/CIFS implementation and I could not easily encrypt the data with
> e.g. dm-crypt/LUKS.
>
> TIA,
> C.
I've had good experience with HP's MSA1000 SAN arrays, they work nicely
with Linux, you can manage them through the serial port, and drive-host
assignment is easy with ACLs
--
Hector Gonzalez
cacho@genac.org
http://www.genac.org
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