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Questions tagged [network-storage]

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S3-compatible Object Storage systems

Has anyone come across a near 100% Amazon S3 RESTful API compatible object storage system? What I am after is a layer that sit on top of any (preferably a POSIX) filesystem that provides Amazon S3 style RESTful API to store (PUT), retrieve (GET),…
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Is there a Distributed SAN/Storage System out there?

Like many other places, we ask our users not to save files to their local machines. Instead, we encourage that they be put on a file server so that others (with appropriate permissions) can use them and that the files are backed up properly. The…
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Is brand-name NAS overpriced?

NetGear's ReadyNAS 2100 has 4 disk slots and costs $2000 with no disks. That seems a bit too expensive for just 4 disk slots. Dell has good network storage solutions too. PowerVault NX3000 has 6 disk slots, so that's an improvement. However, it…
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Is there a block storage system that can create volumes span across multiple physical servers?

Most of current block storage systems allow you to create volumes that span across multiple disks, but those disk must be on the same server. Is there any system that can create a volume that spans across multiple disk on multiple servers, and that…
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2 x DL 380p gen 8 + HP Infiniband 10Gb/40Gb 544FLR-QSFP 649282-B21

my company bought 2x DL380p gen8 servers, and i would like to create hyper-convergence model. My question is, whether I can connect directly two 544FLR-QSFP ( 649282-B21 ) cards bypassing InfiniBand switch over ethernet protocole ?
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Network Filesystem fails during high I/O Speeds

I am a user on a cluster using NFS for our data storage needs. Recently, I have been running a pipeline which has very high I/O during some operations. The program we think is causing the problem is named Bowtie, an aligner in Bioinformatic…
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Are there solutions that can combine gigabit ethernet, 10gig ethernet, and fiber channel in a single device?

We currently have Brocade 200E fiber switches, connecting 2 EMC CLARiiONs to 4 VMware ESXi hosts. We are looking into new storage options using iSCSI with our existing ethernet network, including the possibility of gradually upgrading to 10…
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Which storage protocol to use for ESX storage?

What storage connection method should one prefer to use for connecting ESX servers to a shared storage server with 10GbE links? Speficically, I have 2 ESX servers for VMware ESX and one server for shared storage. The storage server is 2 x Xeon E5504…
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Should I use a NAS for file sharing, or just Windows network share folders?

We have a semi-corporate environment with about 25 users. Most machines are Windows7 but there are some Macs on the network, too. We want to set up some location (on a Windows server with lots of storage) where users can store their usual daily…
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Remotely Managing Storage on Hyper-V 2012 Core

I have a core Hyper-V Server 2012 that I am remotely managing from a Windows 8 client. I can connect in Hyper-V Manager, Server Manager, and MMC. However, I don't understand how I can manage the physical hard drive (for ex, deleting vhdx files,…
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Is hardware abstraction enough for HUGE amount of files?

The web application I'm working on, will be used to upload/download large number/amounts of smaller size files - I'm looking at close to 1B files with total size of > 10Pb. I'm currently struggling with deciding the scalable architecture that would…
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Dell Data Collector Manager not showing Storage Center

In one of our environments, Dell Enterprise Manager Data Collector doesn't seem to connect to my Storage Centre. The logs shows that "Storage Centre Controller Cannot connect to the configured Enterprise Manager, configured Enterprise Manager has…
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Taking pressure off a storage server using a cache server?

In our small business we process large amounts of print-quality ads, and our graphics departments read/write directly to our storage server (Lenovo px4-300d); but after a series of issues it's coming to my attention that they are being very rough on…
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San storage HP p4300 g2 iscsi volume

I have a p4300 SAN storage in my network, I create a volume and assign that to TWO servers, i cant sync data between two volume and any change in one of them dont appear to another, how i can do that?
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Mounting an additional iSCSI volume in Centos without restarting the iscsi initiator

I don't know if I'm missing something but when I'm mounting additional iSCSI volumes to a said server to add additional storage to a server I'm not seeing a way to mount the volume after running a discovery command. The reasoning I want to be able…
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