[ale] Recommendation for SCSI array vendor?

[Greg Freemyer]

Jeff,

I did that with software raid running on 2 fail-over nodes long ago.
Obviously it was cheaper from a hardware perspective, but I never felt
comfortable.

And due to a very strange IT support issue where power was pulled
without a formal shutdown, the raid had to rebuilt from backup tapes
about 3 years into its service life.  That event was pretty expensive
and would have paid for a proper setup.

But I don't know of anybody still making redundant external parallel
connected intelligent SCSI arrays.  The ones I've seen in the last few
years are either FC or iSCSI.  Maybe you should consider one of those
depending on your performance needs.

If you really do want SCSI, you may need to look for used gear on
eBay.  I've worked with the DEC ^h^h^h Compaq ^h^h^h^h^h^h HP
Storageworks stuff and it was very good 10 years ago.  (ie. When they
still offered it with SCSI connections.)

Good Luck
Greg

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>  I'm looking for a small, well-made rack-mount SCSI enclosure I can
> connect between two servers in a STONITH failover cluster.  Can someone
> recommend a vendor who can set me up with one as well as a couple of PCI
> SCSI cards or RAID controllers and cabling?  Next International in CA
> (isn't pretty much everybody in CA?) doesn't have such on their Web site.
>
> - Jeff
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