Setting up a SAN

Posted on January 27th, 2008 in Bits 'n' Bobs by declanshanaghy

Right off the bat this SAN will host data files for FaxIt Nice. Possible expansion in the future may include e-mail and mysql storage but thats not a priority for now. Also because FaxIt Nice is a distributed application the filesystem will also need to support multiple initiators on each LUN. This immediately brings to mind Redhat Global Filesystem (GFS)
Our most likely OS will be Cent OS 5, as that is what i have decided to migrate to for all our servers in the future.

How many operating systems do we need?

Posted on December 6th, 2007 in Bits 'n' Bobs by declanshanaghy

We are currently running Fedora 7, RHEL 3 and CentOS 3 on our network here in 350 Nice. We really need to get things inline on a single OS. This will greatly simplify clustering and maintenance of the servers to provide High Availability (HA) of FaxIt Nice services.