Hello, I need to setup a NAS server on Centos. The machine will be: Dual xeon/Dual Opteron 4GB memory 13x 320GB SATA + 1 hotspare 1x 320GB SATA for OS The server can do RAID5,6,or 10. Has anyone installed such a software and can you recommand a specific product? Thank you.
Samba? NFS? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Alexandru Asofie Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:35 AM To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Centos and Network Attached Storage Hello, I need to setup a NAS server on Centos. The machine will be: Dual xeon/Dual Opteron 4GB memory 13x 320GB SATA + 1 hotspare 1x 320GB SATA for OS The server can do RAID5,6,or 10. Has anyone installed such a software and can you recommand a specific product? Thank you. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Alexandru Asofie wrote:> Hello, > > I need to setup a NAS server on Centos. The machine will be: > Dual xeon/Dual Opteron > 4GB memory > 13x 320GB SATA + 1 hotspare > 1x 320GB SATA for OS > The server can do RAID5,6,or 10. > Has anyone installed such a software and can you recommand a specific > product? > > Thank you.Unless you need all of the power of the full CentOS distro (with the configuration overhead that goes with this), you might consider a dedicated storage server distro such as OpenFiler: http://www.openfiler.com/ OpenFiler hosts their web site on CentOS. :) We are only in the testing phase, but we have been using OpenFiler as an iSCSI target and it is working like a champ. Dan Stoner Network Administrator Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida
Alexandru Asofie wrote:> Hello, > > I need to setup a NAS server on Centos. The machine will be: > Dual xeon/Dual Opteron > 4GB memory > 13x 320GB SATA + 1 hotspare > 1x 320GB SATA for OS > The server can do RAID5,6,or 10. > Has anyone installed such a software and can you recommand a specific > product? > > Thank you.I've built multi-terabyte systems around CentOS, and I'm in the process of writing up the "Poor Man's SAN" in my copious free time! ;) You don't mention what kind of RAID card you're using, but I stick with 3Ware. In a nutshell, all you need to do is a minimal install of CentOS from the first CD. Yum update everything. After this point, you can config Samba for your Windows clients, or NFS for other *nixes as needed. Could probably do AFS as well for Macs, but I haven't done that before. You'll have to wait until I get my howto done to configure hourly snapshots, etc.... HTH Mark