Great news, I have made contact with CFI about the port multipliers and have ordered 10 to test support within FreeBSD and OpenSolaris (for all that ZFS goodness)
Even more exciting: John has made a small amend to the Backblaze design to make the fabrication cheaper and found a UK supplier to complete the work. We have contacted backblaze and they are curious and excited about the change (it avoids needing to laser cut parts of the design, John will explain later). Initial costings suggest we can beat the price listed on the backblaze blog for orders of 10+. Our hope is that we can get a consortium of interested people together and make a bulk order. I do not want to get anyones hopes up and list them till I have solid prices.
I have begun a wiki to get down ideas for the software stack to try and achieve robust file and block level access to storage in a stack of pods, the first article is about identifying all the drives in a pod in linux.
I am off to CloudCamp Londontonight, I hope to get some folk there interested.
- Tom
tom,
cool …. we have just launched an open source project to evolve the storage pod design as well:
http://openstoragepod.org
let’s join forces!
cheers
tim
Very nice blog here. Clean and simple, just hows I likes it. Nice use of social networking-ness too!
Cheers.
Very nice,
We develop and sell ZFS (nexentastor) based storage servers in Holland, and are definitely interested in joining forces, let me know if and how we can help.
Jacco
Hi Jacco,
I am very interested in Nexenta, have used the free version quite a lot.
I guess your experience using the AutoCDP / Replication stuff could help (is the Sun Availability Suite stuff in the nexenta.org?)
When I have solid pricing on the cases, the next stage is to get a consortium together to make a bulk purchase. Are you interested in this? We will be less than the published (protocase) price, how many would you want do you think?
Cheers for getting in touch,
Tom
Hi Tom,
Yes we have a lot of experience with replication (a-sync and syn) with the commercial nexentastor product.
We are very much interested in the case, it basically depends on the price and the specs, so we can use it in combination with zfs. If you can give a ballpark figure of the costs (indicative) then I can tell you more.
Thanks!
Jacco
(please e-mail me directly if possible, that’s easier maybe)
As the John Smith’s advert goes… Top Blogging..
Clean and easy to read!
Hello there,
I’ve started filling out some of the content on the Wiki side of things. We’ve got one of the original designs, and a right f*&^K it was too. That’s the joy of building a system for £7k. Oh – and I think we’ll be joining in on that mass order too.
Thanks
Max