[PVE-User] SAN recommendation.

Lex Rivera me at lex.io
Thu Aug 22 16:47:50 CEST 2013


>Nexenta CE may only be used for testing
May i ask why? I have 3 supermicro storages running Nexenta CE 3.x (4.x
beta is too unstable, but that's why it called "beta") and i haven't see
any problems with iscsi+lvm for KVM and NFS for VZ containers.
Especially after we separated storage switches (was pretty hard at old
office).

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013, at 07:36 AM, Marco Gabriel - inett GmbH wrote:
> Nexenta CE may only be used for testing, not allowed for production.
> 
> If you go for a cheap but reliable SAN, look after Promise VessRAID
> machines. 
> 
> If you don’t want to spend any money, have a look at freenas which is
> pretty nice, full featured and uses ZFS in the back.
> 
> Ceph is probably nice, but overkill for SMB. I am talking about the case,
> that something fails and you have to fix a complex system instead of
> using another (fallback) NFS or iSCSI device.
> 
> Marco
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> Von: pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com
> [mailto:pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com] Im Auftrag von Muhammad Yousuf
> Khan
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. August 2013 14:10
> An: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
> Betreff: [PVE-User] SAN recommendation.
> 
> Need any experience suggestion. 
> We want a SMB SAN storage and a bit convenient in price. with HA and
> Multipathing for iSCSI
> do you guys think openfiler could be a good option for production or it
> is just good for testing?
> Thanks,
> Myk
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