On Jan 24, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
On 1/24/2014 11:09 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: Is anybody using the Object Storage plugin for large-scale installations?
I've not used it.
We're considering it, but are thinking of an in-house S3 storage system (riak, or ceph, or ?) Looking to support perhaps 300k users. I was thinking that if we use a bank of dovecot servers (with director) with ssds as cache, we might be able to consolidate all the storage on something like a riak cluster, which would make scaling simple and inexpensive - certainly much less than a NetApp solution.
Everything costs less than a NetApp...except an EMC.
If anyone has any first-hand experience (or even off-the-top-of-their-head thoughts), I'd love to hear them)
(Stan gives a great run-down on the economics of using a NetApp or even homegrown NFS filer versus using an object storage backend.)
I am quite familiar with NetApp, and EMC - I used to have a number of Celera file servers back in my BigFish/FrontBridge days.
But now I'm in a situation where I have dozens of servers with spare storage bays and unused CPU cycles sitting in data centers where the power is already provisioned, and a DFS is what makes most sense for me now.
So, I would like to ask once again- is anyone on the list using the object storage plugin for dovecot at any reasonably large scale, whether it's an in-house storage solution or S3?
Thanks-
Tom