Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:35:47 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD Message-ID: <25A3192F31A344B99F50583BDC58C921@GRANT>
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Hi all, Up to this point, all of our servers are standalone, i.e. all services and software required are installed on each local server. Apache, Exim, vm-pop3d, Mysql, etc etc. Each local server is connected to the Inet via a VLAN (WAN), to our colo's switch. Each server contains about 300 domains, each domain has its own IP. Each sever is also connected to a VLAN (LAN) via the same (Dell 48 Port managed switch). We have been considering consolidating all users data from each server to a central (local), storage unit. While I do have active nfs's running (for backups etc), on the LAN only, I have never attempted to create 1 mass storage unit. So I suppose the questions are: 1) Is there any specific hardware that anyone might reccommend? I want to stick with FreeBSD as the OS as I am quite comfortable admining it, 2) Would anyone reccomend NOT using FreeBSD? Why? 3) Assuming I am using FreeBSD as the storage systems OS, could NFS simply be used? 4) Considering out whole Inet traffic runs about 2 Mb/s, is there any reason the port to the Storage unit should be more than 100 M/b (would it be imparative to use 1 G/b transfer)? TIA, -Grant
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