hi all,
thought i’d give this a push as it’s pretty ideal for farmers looking to develop a big chunk of storage…
FREE!
software defined
use cheap servers and disks
resilient using software XOR not hardware RAID
running here on 3 x hp microservers, selection of any old sata drives - mine = 4tb down to 200gb in size (doesn’t matter) usage gets balanced by file system…
i my case 12 drives giving me 21tb of space
runs on ubuntu beautifully
simple install, whack ubuntu usb key as system, xfs the sata drives, install lizardfs (2 x master (prime + shadow), 1 x metadata log, N x chunkservers) across the servers, tweak a few configs… start services, relax - drink coffee…
quick and easy…
rup 