Re: [BLUG] NAS (for Ubuntu 8.4 and 10.4) recommendation?

Thanks, everybody, for the reply. I talked to the owner and
he actually was thinking abut NAS instead of SAN. ;-) So I
have changed my subject line. Any recommendation for small
scale NAS?

Best,
Shing-Shong

On 03/16/2012 11:30 PM, Mark Krenz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 02:59:12PM GMT, Paul Purdom [pwp@cs.indiana.edu] said the following:
>> I just had to remark that 10 TB being small seems funny to me, given the
>> amount of memory I use to get by with.
>
> Yes, however for a SAN that is small. Where I work we have SANS near
> 100TB. And we're on the low end compared to some very big companies.
> There really is a lot of waste though. People don't know how to properly
> manage their data.
>
> I once calculated that at the rate we're going, by the time I'm 85
> years old (2061). We'll be in the yottabyte of storage era. Of course
> there are all kinds of obstacles to get there, but so where there in
> getting to GBs and TBs.
>
> http://suso.suso.org/xulu/A_Yottabyte_of_storage
>
> 110YB would approximately be enough to record the entire lifetime of
> every person who has ever lived in HD.
>
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Re: [BLUG] SAN (for Ubuntu 8.4 and 10.4) recommendation?

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 02:59:12PM GMT, Paul Purdom [pwp@cs.indiana.edu] said the following:
> I just had to remark that 10 TB being small seems funny to me, given the
> amount of memory I use to get by with.

Yes, however for a SAN that is small. Where I work we have SANS near
100TB. And we're on the low end compared to some very big companies.
There really is a lot of waste though. People don't know how to properly
manage their data.

I once calculated that at the rate we're going, by the time I'm 85
years old (2061). We'll be in the yottabyte of storage era. Of course
there are all kinds of obstacles to get there, but so where there in
getting to GBs and TBs.

http://suso.suso.org/xulu/A_Yottabyte_of_storage

110YB would approximately be enough to record the entire lifetime of
every person who has ever lived in HD.

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Re: [BLUG] SAN (for Ubuntu 8.4 and 10.4) recommendation?

Josh Goodman wrote:
> Have you already dismissed a direct attached storage product? SANs are nice
> for the right situation, but they are very pricey. It might be overkill for a
> small lab type situation.
>
> I've heard good things about the Dell SANs, but I've never used them myself.

I would also consider NAS appliances. I've heard decent things about
QNAP products.
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Re: [BLUG] SAN (for Ubuntu 8.4 and 10.4) recommendation?

Have you already dismissed a direct attached storage product?  SANs are nice for the right situation, but they are very pricey.  It might be overkill for a small lab type situation.

I've heard good things about the Dell SANs, but I've never used them myself.

Josh

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Shei, Shing-Shong <shei@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

Hi,

Anyone in the group have any recommendation of a small scale SAN that
works well with Ubuntu (especially for 8.4 and 10.4)?  It's for a small
lab and the storage requirement is not high (probably between 5 to 10
TB?).  I'm seeking for 1) ease of installation/maintenance 2)
performance and 3) reliability.  I know it's vague but just a starting
point.

Thanks,
Shing-Shong Shei
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Re: [BLUG] SAN (for Ubuntu 8.4 and 10.4) recommendation?

Well, it's not too 'big' either given that nowadays you can buy a 4TB
HD! ; -)

On 03/16/2012 10:59 AM, Paul Purdom wrote:
> On 3/16/2012 9:47 AM, Shei, Shing-Shong wrote:
>> It's for a small lab and the storage requirement is not high (probably between 5 to 10TB?).
> I just had to remark that 10 TB being small seems funny to me, given the
> amount of memory I use to get by with.
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Re: [BLUG] SAN (for Ubuntu 8.4 and 10.4) recommendation?

On 3/16/2012 9:47 AM, Shei, Shing-Shong wrote:
> It's for a small
> lab and the storage requirement is not high (probably between 5 to 10
> TB?).
I just had to remark that 10 TB being small seems funny to me, given the
amount of memory I use to get by with.
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[BLUG] SAN (for Ubuntu 8.4 and 10.4) recommendation?

Hi,

Anyone in the group have any recommendation of a small scale SAN that
works well with Ubuntu (especially for 8.4 and 10.4)? It's for a small
lab and the storage requirement is not high (probably between 5 to 10
TB?). I'm seeking for 1) ease of installation/maintenance 2)
performance and 3) reliability. I know it's vague but just a starting
point.

Thanks,
Shing-Shong Shei
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[BLUG] Courseload in Indy is looking for a system engineer to design and manage a cloud-based infrastructure

Courseload has a very beautiful HTML5 application for universities to manage e-texts.  They are well-funded, past the startup stage and have paying customers including IU.

You can see their job posting here.

They are also looking for a web developer and a front-designer.

If you or anyone you know is interested, send me a note at my work email -- jmckean@careerinvestments.com -- and I will get them considered.

Jim

[BLUG] gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, terminator and others are unsafe

I'm trying to release this many places so that people see it and
take care of it for themselves. Terminal emulators that use the
libvte library, which include gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal,
terminator and guake write their scrollback buffer history to disk in
the /tmp directory:

http://www.climagic.org/bugreports/libvte-scrollback-written-to-disk.html

A video showing how this works and why you should be concerned is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgNLHskYvVE

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Re: [BLUG] Mounting a network drive

Are these CIFS file shares? or NFS?

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kelly McEvilly <kellym@wbhcp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If anyone is up to doing a 'Mounting network drives in Redhat for Dummies'
> primer, I'd be most obliged.   My Googling abilities seem a bit suspect on
> the topic.
>
> I have a Redhat server that I want to write backup files from to a QNAP NAS
> which runs some flavor of Linux.  I can't remember what it is off the top of
> my head and am on my way downtown to an appt with Dr. CrazyHorse but can get
> the info Monday if it's needed.
>
> I can navigate to the share on the NAS from Redhat and have no access
> restrictions on that share at all but still don't seem to be able to write
> my backups to it.
>
> I'm hoping that if I mount a drive I'll have more luck.  I just can't seem
> to get the syntax correct.
>
> Thanks In Advance!
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[BLUG] Mounting a network drive

Hi,

If anyone is up to doing a 'Mounting network drives in Redhat for Dummies' primer, I'd be most obliged.   My Googling abilities seem a bit suspect on the topic.

I have a Redhat server that I want to write backup files from to a QNAP NAS which runs some flavor of Linux.  I can't remember what it is off the top of my head and am on my way downtown to an appt with Dr. CrazyHorse but can get the info Monday if it's needed.

I can navigate to the share on the NAS from Redhat and have no access restrictions on that share at all but still don't seem to be able to write my backups to it. 

I'm hoping that if I mount a drive I'll have more luck.  I just can't seem to get the syntax correct.

Thanks In Advance!