IMHO, may be take look the ZFS appliance (7000 storage) from oracle
it provide GUI for Dtrace based Analytics and WGUI management.
It support 1/2 PB now and will be support much more in near future.
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/039224.pdf
it support local cluster and remote replication etc
it support 10ge and IB etc
regards
On 8/25/2010 1:42 PM, J.P. King wrote:>
> This is slightly off topic, so I apologise in advance.
>
> I''m investigating the option of offering private "cloud
storage".
> I''ve found many things which offer features that I want, but
nothing
> that seems to glue them all together into a useful whole. Thus I
> would like to pick your collective brains on the matter. The reason
> for this mailing list is that the obvious solution to aspects of this
> is to use ZFS as the underlying filesystem, and this is the only
> storage mailing list I am subscribed to. :-)
>
> What I would like to achieve:
>
> Large (by my standard) scale storage. Lets say petabyte scale,
> although I''ll start around 50-100TB.
>
> Redundancy across machines of data. This doesn''t mean that I have
to
> have synchronous mirroring or anything, but I don''t want data
stored
> in just one location. I also don''t require this happen at the
block
> level. I am quite happy for a system which has two copies of every
> file one two machines done at the application level.
>
> An Amazon S3 style interface. It doesn''t have to be the same API
as
> S3, but something which has the same sorts of features would be good.
>
> Scalability. My building blocks would be X4540''s or similar. I
want
> to be able to add more of these and be able to manage the storage
> well. I want the front end to hide that the data is half on machines
> Alpha and Aleph and half on machines Beta and Beth.
>
> A means of managing all this storage. I''ll accept a web front
end,
> but I''d rather have something scriptable with an API.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts, pointers, or suggestions. If people
> have ideas that force me away from ZFS then I''m interested,
although
> that does mean that this thread would drift more off topic.
>
> Has anyone done anything like this? Whether public cloud or private
> cloud? In my head the model worked really well, but research
didn''t
> result in the solutions I thought I was going to find.
>
> This is intended to be a service, so if it is too shonky then it
won''t
> meet my needs.
>
> Oh, and free isn''t a requirement, but it is definitely a bonus.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Julian
> --
> Julian King
> Computer Officer, University of Cambridge, Unix Support
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