Re: SAS Drive Enclosure

[Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson () esri com>]

MD1200 is a great bet then.

Other options -- SuperMicro has lots:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=216

Quanta:

http://www.quantaqct.com/Product/Rack-Systems/Rackgo-X/JBODs/JBR-p247c77c86c88c92

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:06:09PM +0000, Graham Johnston wrote:
> I am primarily wanting something that will act like a DELL MD1200,
> SAS connected to a server, then run a clustered filesystem on the
> server(s) which will serve up NFS or iSCSI to client devices.
>
> Graham Johnston
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jameson, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Jameson () tdstelecom com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:11 PM
> To: Ray Van Dolson; Graham Johnston
> Cc: 'nanog () nanog org'
> Subject: RE: SAS Drive Enclosure
>
> What are you thinking for connectivity,  Ethernet,  FiberChannel,
> Infiniband ...  Building *Storage Nodes* or in need of just drive
> connectivity?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:53 PM
> To: Graham Johnston
> Cc: 'nanog () nanog org'
> Subject: Re: SAS Drive Enclosure
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:19:59PM +0000, Graham Johnston wrote:
> > I am looking for information about SAS drive enclosures, is there a 
> > list like NANOG that covers that area of IT?
> >
> > I am specifically looking for an enclosure that can handle 12 or more 
> > drives, I am looking to create a clustered file system between 
> > multiple servers and would like to avoid a drive enclosure that only 
> > works with a very small number of approved drives.  I am looking to 
> > support traditional HDDs as well as SSDs.
>
> There were discussions at some point about setting up a
> storage-centric list via SNIA or something else fairly 'neutral'.
> Never really materialized, however.
>
> Lists like lopsa-tech and the LISA/USENIX SAGE list are general
> enough you might get some good responses.
>
> WRT your question, we've had good luck with the Dell MD1200 line of
> JBODs.
>
> Ray