[Cialug] HW, anyone?

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Mike Hughes <mike at visionary.com> wrote:

> Speaking of hardware we're looking to buy a new storage device(s) with
> 30+TB capacity and high IOPS for databases & VMs. My dream would be to have
> the option to fill a hybrid system with the latest NVMe as we can afford
> them and stuff the rest with a couple rows of 2.5" HDDs for cold storage.
>
> We considered a BackBlaze Storage Pod (which are actually available if you
> contact BackupPods directly) but I was scared off by the SPOF introduced by
> the lack of dual controllers.
>

BackBlaze gets their redundancy by running many storage pods so they can
save money by not using fancy RAID hardware. They generally deploy racks
full of storage at a time.


> Does anyone have experience (good or bad) with building and maintaining a
> machine of this girth? Is it worth the hassle to avoid the vendor lock-in
> that the major players insist on?
>

You might look into Ceph. It's open source so there's no vendor lock-in. I
have a 40TB Ceph system at home running on used desktops that I picked up
from Midwest Computer Recyclers. Ceph scales up to petabytes and can do
iSCSI, S3 compatible storage, etc.

-- 
Jeff Ollie
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