Re: Xserve RAID on FreeBSD

From: Chris Shenton (chris_at_shenton.org)
Date: 10/02/03

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    To: Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:44:42 -0400

    Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de> writes:

    > Basically, this unit is a Mac OS X Server providing storage over the
    > fibre using the usual suspects (NFS, SMB/CIFS(Samba), AFS). Don't know
    > if anybody tried this using fiber channel transport.

    I do not believe this is correct. I believe the Xserve RAID is a 3U
    box of HW-RAIDed IDE disks with redundant power supply and RAID
    controllers, with FibreChannel connections to a server. Price is
    outstanding, 2.5TB for about $11K.

    The Xserve is a sweet 1U OSX/UNIX box for which you can buy
    reasonably-priced FC adapters to connect it to the RAID.

    The RAID box has 2 FC interfaces so you could connect 2 Xserve boxes,
    or dual-connect a single Xserve, or connect it to a FC switch. The
    Xserver(s) can then export the FC-connected disk via NFS, CIFS, etc.

    I'd love to see a front end server acting like a NetApp.
    FreeBSD-5.x's snapshot feature gives you one of the nicest features of
    the NetApp. I'd love to hear if anyone's doing this.
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