On 21/07/2013 10:13, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 7/20/2013 9:20 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
It sounds great, a real win-win as to cost *and* performance... Until you read the article carefully and note the network requirement:
"Data is synchronously written to another host with a PCIe SSD for data protection and high availability via a simple, private *10GbE* network."
I have no opinion on the subject, but for others who haven't read the article the 10gbe referred to is to keep the server in sync with a backup server somewhere presumed in the same room. As such 10gbe seems reasonable and inexpensive (newer supermicro can come with them built-in and standalone cards are reasonably inexpensive. The new Netgear 10gbe switch is even quite affordable)
As near as I can tell they advocate putting all the storage on the host machine and using network to sync off the machine (vs SAN where all the storage is off machine)
I don't really get where they are going with this solution though?
Ed W