lucasmocellin

Hi, I also think mirrored disks are better for this situation, I'm looking for redundancy, not a backup. For backup I will use Bacula. I just got that my hardware are not that good as I imagined, and they are not that proper also, as they support only up to 4 HD's. so by now I'm almost giving up on the NAS/SAN and have a local RAID with a good backup. my main problem with the NAS is that I would store all the system in there, so if I got a problem with the NAS, ALL THE SYSTEMS WILL SHUT DOWN! and this makes me think a lot about this decision. as I didn't find a professional solution case, I will give up temporarily on that. thanks a ton for your reply! Lucas.

No SSD's. SATA and SAS HD's. I need to use FreeBSD, and DRDB is not available for BSD, there is the equivalent, but not that reliable as I've read around. FreeNAS looks very reliable now, and no much difference between them as I google (I've never worked with them, my opinion is just about googling). I will send him a message! I would like to find someone who had set up a FreeNAS + any kinda system redundancy. thanks! lucas.

ah, I need to finish the planning of this project by wednesday. =( sorry for the hurry, but if you guys can help me out with some opinions, I would really appreciate. thanks again, Lucas

Hello guys! I'm doing the same for a FreeNAS storage. Looking for some redundancy - not necessarily fail-over. I will build an environment with some VMware ESX machines and I need a reliable FreeNAS with redundancy - trying to eliminate SPOF (Single Point of Failure). I already have a solution for the VMware, but not for the NAS. I thought about DRDB and an exclusive 1GB link between them, but I'm not sure if it will have the appropriated performance. Maybe kinda of DRDB asynchronous between master and slave? Can you both tell me about your environments? How is the final set up? How is the performance? What you think is the bottleneck? Did you guys do some reliability/performance analyzing on that? Thanks in advance! Lucas.