Comments on: An Open-Source SAN

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:31:46 +0000

I disagree completely with the Dave before me. I have over 200 TB in 9 coraid devices of many sizes and love it!!!

Just ordered everything to upgrade my core switch to have 10GB and the new SRX SFP

Happy Coraid customer for 4 Years!!!

Mostly Fedora and a Few CentOS
The way we use coraid doesnt work great with windows servers (not architected to)

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:45:29 +0000

Leo – here’s the update … FC has been and gone; AoE never took off; iSCSI is the winner.

Coraid was a great idea at the time but ultimately it was the Beta video casette to VHS’s iSCSI

There are plenty of interesting open-source SAN/NAS technologies however – Openfiler (Linux based) and Nexenta (Solaris/ZFS based) are just two to watch …

By: Leo Vang

Leo Vang — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:47:55 +0000

I’m very interested in this, it’s been quite a few years since this post and I would love to hear and see a production setup of this. Preferring to a redhat/centos cluster or cloud hosting if possible.

By: Saifi Khan

Saifi Khan — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:40:48 +0000

Hi Robin:

In retrospect, how does this stuff look to you today ?

Looking forward to reading your thoughts on FCoE.

Have a nice weekend.

thanks
Saifi.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:26:22 +0000

I found this blog via google so this entry is a bit old – just wanted to throw my 2 cents in – i’ve installed a SR1521 from coraid this week, fully populated with 750gb drives and their nas gateway serving it up. Not bad at all for the money. You need to be very comfortable at the command line to make this thing hum, but their support has been very fast and i have not had too many huge problems. worth a look if your department is a on a tight budget for sure.

By: Alan Berezin

Alan Berezin — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:07:39 +0000

Does anyone have some experience with coraid raid boxes. Specifically, any performance comparisons with, for example, low end iSCSI boxes like Promise? Also, any experience in a real clustered environment? Finally, the technology seems like it should be lower network overhead than iSCSI but has anyone actually measured any real performance benefit?