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Sorry for the off topic post:
I'm building a Linux cluster here soon. I'm looking at storage options for
my database servers and web servers. I *could* put 10-disk arrays in each
database server, but I'm looking for an option that would allow me to
consolidate all those disks and storage and have multiple Ultra-160
interfaces to those disks.
The benefit would be that all I have to buy is one ultra-160 controller for
each server, and connect it to the "main storage", and the main storage
would take care of doing the RAID-5 on 5, 10, or 20 discs. To the server it
would just look like one big fast SCSI disk.
I've read into EMC, brocade, gadzoox, hitachi, etc. etc. But all I find is
SAN stuff (fiber channel interfaces, etc.). I would prefer Ultra-160 over
fiber channel because I don't need the distance of FC and I prefer the
stability of Ultra-160 SCSI card drivers and simplicity.
Does anyone have any pointers to information or resources that I could
research?
Dan Browning
Network & Database Administrator
Cyclone Computer Systems
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