[Novalug] Best Workplace file server

[Ken Kauffman]

Once you define your storage requirements, you may want to look into low end
SAN units with commercial support.

Ken

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 18:41, William Morse <wmorse at americancouncils.org>wrote:

> Dear LUGers,
>
> Today's emotionally charged discussion has convinced me to abandon my
> natural timidity and ask a question. If the regulars on this list feel
> self-conscious I suppose I'll never get over that "exposed" feeling.
> Also, last week's discussion about home file servers was very
> enlightening.
>
> But what about servers for the workplace?
>
> I work for a non-profit that has until recently run a LAMP stack on one
> machine, just waiting for something to break.
>
> We figured out how to get Ubuntu Server up on two physical machines,
> create a few virtualized guests using KVM , get heartbeat to have
> servers look out for each other and use rsync to mirror our websites.
> Yipee!
>
> So now I am ready to turn my mind to storing all the fabulous content my
> coworkers plan to create.
>
> Let's suppose I have a budget under $10K. Where can I find out what I
> can build? The instructions at
> http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-
> cheap-cloud-storage/<http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-%0Acheap-cloud-storage/>were a little over my head.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
>
> --
> William Morse
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