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How to get decent NFS performance for workloads like git?

I manage a vagrant setup for our developers running OSX to manage VirtualBox systems for development. In order to support inotify inside the linux machine, we eschew the usual method of sharing directories with VirtualBox: instead, the Virtualbox…
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The setup of S2D that delivers up to 2M IOPS to SQL FCI

We are about to deploy shared storage researching for ultra-fast storage to implement Microsoft SQL Server Failover Cluster (FCI). So far the project goes, we would to start with 500K IOPS for 8k blocks about 70r/30w pattern. Also we would like to…
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Shared storage options for ESXi HA cluster

I am seeking recommendations for shared storage options to support ESXi HA cluster (note I'm NOT asking for product/brand/model recommendation - I know this is against the rules here). I am asking for technology recommendation. The company I work…
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Two-Node Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster: Is it possible use local physical disks in the cluster?

Looking at the following Clustered Shared Spaces TechNet article, and it looks like this only applies to hosts sharing a JBOD enclosure by way of external SAS backplane. However, each host in the two-node cluster has an identical amount of SAS 15K…
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Recycle Bin for Network Share

We will be implementing a remote desktop server farm, where users' profiles will be hosted on a file server. I believe that doing this will allow users to delete files from their desktop/documents folder etc, and still provide a way to restore from…
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DRBD vs. GlusterFS for replication

I need to build a solution to host internal git repositories. It needs to supports hundreds of thousands (or more) repositories. I plan on using multiple "dumb" servers with a shared storage, so basically when a client is trying to access a…
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Open-source Shared Storage file system?

Can anyone advice for a production-level, open-source shared storage (SAN) file-system? I read about GFS and GFS2, but the first one seems a bit outdated, and the second is not considered stable for production. Are there others I can check into?
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Replicated shared filesystem

I'm looking into setting up a shared filesystem/file server on AWS (EC2) infrastructure that offers replication and fairly painless failover. This filesystem would host potentially millions of files that are a few megs in size. Those files would be…
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RHCS: GFS2 in A/A cluster with common storage. Configuring GFS with rgmanager

I'm configuring a two node A/A cluster with a common storage attached via iSCSI, which uses GFS2 on top of clustered LVM. So far I have prepared a simple configuration, but am not sure which is the right way to configure gfs resource. Here is the rm…
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Is it worse to go with Samsung 960 EVO instead of Pro version in terms of price to perforamce measure?

We are about to deploy shared storage researching for ultra-fast storage to implement Microsoft SQL Server Failover Cluster (FCI). So far the project goes, we would to start with 500K IOPS and have ability of grows up to 2M IOPS in a year or so, due…
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4 node HyperV and shared storage cluster in Windows Server 2012

I succesfully setup a HA SOFS storage cluster using Starwind on two nodes. Now I want to setup the HyperV failover part and need some input on how to implement this. Do I need to add the two HyperV nodes in the storage cluster or do I need to create…
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glusterfs and dovecot problems

Ive got two servers with a shared glusterfs disk, both running dovecot and serving mail from this shared disk. Users read mail only from one of these servers but mail gets delivered to both. Occasionally I get problems when accessing the inbox…
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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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Shared storage between Virtual Machines

We're planning to set up HA apache servers in our virtual environment. The load balancing between the servers is working fine. The problem we face is the following: We'd like to have one physical storage for all of the apache servers (Thats where…
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How can I Persist connections to Microsoft Azure Files for all the users?

I have created file share in azure and mapped it to Virtual Machine entitled VM_01. I have used CmdKey command to persist the credentials. C:\>cmdkey /add:.file.core.windows.net /user:…
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