I am primarily wanting something that will act like a DELL MD1200, SAS connected to a server, then run a clustered filesystem on the server(s) which will serve up NFS or iSCSI to client devices. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnstong@westmancom.com think green; don't print this email. -----Original Message----- From: Jameson, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Jameson@tdstelecom.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:11 PM To: Ray Van Dolson; Graham Johnston Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: SAS Drive Enclosure What are you thinking for connectivity, Ethernet, FiberChannel, Infiniband ... Building *Storage Nodes* or in need of just drive connectivity? -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:53 PM To: Graham Johnston Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: Re: SAS Drive Enclosure On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:19:59PM +0000, Graham Johnston wrote:
I am looking for information about SAS drive enclosures, is there a list like NANOG that covers that area of IT?
I am specifically looking for an enclosure that can handle 12 or more drives, I am looking to create a clustered file system between multiple servers and would like to avoid a drive enclosure that only works with a very small number of approved drives. I am looking to support traditional HDDs as well as SSDs.
There were discussions at some point about setting up a storage-centric list via SNIA or something else fairly 'neutral'. Never really materialized, however. Lists like lopsa-tech and the LISA/USENIX SAGE list are general enough you might get some good responses. WRT your question, we've had good luck with the Dell MD1200 line of JBODs. Ray