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Hi,<br>
Ive read just about everything i can find out there on Gluster, and
waded through a lot of the old posts on the user-list. I'm wondering
what the current state of gluster is for interop. with windows 7
clients. <br>
<br>
I work for a company that deals with images - a lot of them are
jpegs around 2Mb and raw camera images at 14-20Mb. We generate about
4-6 Tb of these each year.<br>
<br>
Currently we use expensive (fibre channel disk) block based storage
over 4G fibre SAN; attached to this is a Ployserve (a HP product
now) active/active cluster of 4 windows servers. All of this is due
for a refresh this year (Servers with faster I/O and 10GE network)
and i'm looking at all the alternatives, HP have an (IBRIX sourced)
array with 2 front end servers, runs redhat, feature set similar to
gluster....<br>
<br>
I'm wondering you have any experience with a Gluster config, with a
similar workload? What about windows 7 enterprise clients - use NFS
or Samba?<br>
<br>
I'm considering gluster nodes as HP DL180G6 with 25x 2.5" 300Gb 10K
SAS Drives in each (to keep the number of spindles up). A pair of
10GbE cards for connectivity. Do you have any thoughts on this
possible config? If you were building a Gluster system from scratch
with an Medium/Large business budget, how would you do it?<br>
<br>
Thanks for any help you can give with my questions.<br>
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