Re: Designing RAC Storage For A Small University

Tim,

Firewire attached external IDE drives can work, but is more for testing, not for supporting a production environment.

If you are certain that you'll never add another node, non-RAID SCSI permits "sharing" a SCSI bus between 2 SCSI host bus adapters. This is a very old method.

Some external iSCSI Serial ATA II units have multiple GigE ports and could provide a solution that is under the 12K USD number, but still larger than the cost of the 2 servers. At least you would not need a Fibre switch or even gigabit ethernet switch ports (go point to point).

Are there any other systems that the university might consider clustering?

-bdbafh Received on Fri Nov 04 2005 - 14:42:39 CST