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okayjacob
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 Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:19 pm Post subject: Creating SAN |
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I've been tasked with a project to create a SAN to backup our Mac OS X servers. We are needing a total usable storage of 5 - 6 TB. I'd like to use RAID 5, but RAID 1 would be acceptable. What all do we need to make this happen?
So far I'm thinking the following....
1) Fibre Channel Switch
2) Fibre Channel Cards for each server
3) Promise VTrak E-Class 16x SATA RAID Subsystem (http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/product/TV299VC/A)
Am I missing anything? How hard is this going to be to setup? Can any device write to the SAN, or do you have to have a fibre card in the computer in order to read/write from it?
Any advise? Where can I read more about this?
Thanks for your time. |
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JSamuel
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Joined: 05 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:16 pm Post subject: Re: Creating SAN |
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| okayjacob wrote: | | I've been tasked with a project to create a SAN to backup our Mac OS X servers. We are needing a total usable storage of 5 - 6 TB. |
So you have primary storage and this would be backup? LTO system?
| okayjacob wrote: | So far I'm thinking the following....
1) Fibre Channel Switch
2) Fibre Channel Cards for each server
3) Promise VTrak E-Class 16x SATA RAID Subsystem (http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/product/TV299VC/A)
Am I missing anything? How hard is this going to be to setup? Can any device write to the SAN, or do you have to have a fibre card in the computer in order to read/write from it? |
LAN network (routing etc) ; metadata network (non-routing, static IPv4, IPv6 off) ; metadata switch ; cabling (fibre & cat) ; licenses.
It depends on functions and requirements... In reality this may all be overkill just to backup some servers and 6TB of storage.
| okayjacob wrote: | | Can any device write to the SAN, or do you have to have a fibre card in the computer in order to read/write from it? |
Depends on permissions you deploy, but yes... And this is all on the assumption of Apple's Xsan (as we're on Xsanity) so yes, FC card and license for all, unless you have a server with an network re-share. |
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