[Cialug] HW, anyone?

[Scott Yates]

+1 for LizardFS.  I am just starting checking that out now, but it looks
like a VERY interesting solution.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:13 AM Will <staticphantom at gmail.com> wrote:

> My cousin works with 45 Drives as a consultant, which is a company that
> sells the back blaze units for home. They work pretty well but I wouldn't
> reach for them in place of a SGI now HPe storage solution it you need
> sustained rates and tons storage. If you need warm storage then they are by
> far the cheapest way to get to a petabyte.
>
> If you aren't willing to play with Ceph yet and you need redundancy (if
> geospatial redundancy) then check out LizardFS.
>
> -Will
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 09:53 Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > The majestik møøse is one of the mäni interesting furry animals in
> Sweden.
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