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. Thanks, Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnstong@westmancom.com<mailto:johnstong@westmancom.com> P think green; don't print this email.
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
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
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
MD1200 is a great bet then. Other options -- SuperMicro has lots: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=216 Quanta: http://www.quantaqct.com/Product/Rack-Systems/Rackgo-X/JBODs/JBR-p247c77c86c... On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:06:09PM +0000, Graham Johnston wrote:
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
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