Hey guys, I know this is a bit off topic for this list but i''m looking for some help, We run 8 xen DomU''s in a box, 4 are MISC, 2 run Exim4 and 2 run apache, We need a shared storage option to allow all e-mail and websites to be in one location. Price is an issue at this point and we cant afford a large SAN, what we were thinking is getting a NAS device like the linksys NSLU2 NAS storage device, this exports via samba. The shared storage will be mainly READ-ONLY for reading email and websites but both exim4 domu''s will be writing e-mail to the device. Has anyone done this and is anyone aware of any issues in doing this? Cheers -- ----------------------- Tristram Cheer Network Architect UberNetworks Level 1 2a Vine St Whangarei 0101 M:021-715-823 W:09-438-5472 F:09-438-5473 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 11:41 pm, Tristram Cheer wrote:> in one location. Price is an issue at this point and we cant afford a > large SAN, what we were thinking is getting a NAS device like the > linksys NSLU2 NAS storage device, this exports via samba.just go to http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ to make it run whatever server you want. at least check: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/Nfs-utils http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/Vblade to serve NFS and AoE respectively -- Javier _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Tue, Apr 25 ''06 at 23:47, Javier Guerra wrote:> > in one location. Price is an issue at this point and we cant afford a > > large SAN, what we were thinking is getting a NAS device like the > > linksys NSLU2 NAS storage device, this exports via samba. > > just go [ ... ] to make it run whatever server you want. at least check: > [e.g.] to serve NFS and AoE respectivelyI still can''t belive you''re serios. The NSLU2 (even when overclocked) can only server like 5MB/s. Any 300$ PC can do better. It needs more power but you can run any OS you want. (Still unslugh is fabulouse). -- /"\ Goetz Bock at blacknet dot de -- secure mobile Linux everNETting \ / (c) 2006 Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 de X [ 1. Use descriptive subjects - 2. Edit a reply for brevity - ] / \ [ 3. Reply to the list - 4. Read the archive *before* you post ] _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Quoting Tristram Cheer <tristram@ubernet.co.nz>:> I know this is a bit off topic for this list but i''m looking for some > help, We run 8 xen DomU''s in a box, 4 are MISC, 2 run Exim4 and 2 run > apache, > We need a shared storage option to allow all e-mail and websites to be > in one location. Price is an issue at this point and we cant afford a > large SAN, what we were thinking is getting a NAS device like the > linksys NSLU2 NAS storage device, this exports via samba. >Why samba? As long it''s just several domU''s on the same (physical) server, why not add an extra harddisk, format it with the ocfs2 filesystem and export it to all domU''s that need the shared volume? You do need to install the ocfs2-tools on each domU and the nodes will communicate to each other over tcp (port 7777), but it works quite well. One caveat, you can''t use mmaped files on a ocfs2 volume (yet). But then again, I doubt smbfs supports it either. Or add an extra harddisk and setup an extra domU as a NFS (or samba) server for the other domU''s. Can''t beat the price ;-) Peter _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I agree, even after all the hackery, throughput on the LinkSys device is very slow. I had used the NSLU2 in my home network for over a year, but the limited throughput became a serious bottleneck when I began storing files larger than 10MB (Oggs, MPEGs etc.) in size... I ended up eBay-ing the thing, and replaced it with a Shuttle Box (in my case a cheapo SK43G, Sempron 2400+, 512MB RAM, a LinkSys GigE network card, and a DVD-ROM, no internal hard drive), booted up using a modified version of a live distro called Slax (see http://www.slax.org), and external SATA drives (shared using SAMBA for Windows access). So far, this has worked like a charm.. -Ovais On 4/25/06, Goetz Bock <bock@blacknet.de> wrote:> > > On Tue, Apr 25 ''06 at 23:47, Javier Guerra wrote: > > > in one location. Price is an issue at this point and we cant afford a > > > large SAN, what we were thinking is getting a NAS device like the > > > linksys NSLU2 NAS storage device, this exports via samba. > > > > just go [ ... ] to make it run whatever server you want. at least > check: > > [e.g.] to serve NFS and AoE respectively > > I still can''t belive you''re serios. The NSLU2 (even when overclocked) > can only server like 5MB/s. Any 300$ PC can do better. It needs more > power but you can run any OS you want. > > (Still unslugh is fabulouse). > -- > /"\ Goetz Bock at blacknet dot de -- secure mobile Linux everNETting > \ / (c) 2006 Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 de > X [ 1. Use descriptive subjects - 2. Edit a reply for brevity - ] > / \ [ 3. Reply to the list - 4. Read the archive *before* you post ] > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users