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SAN project idea
Hello there.
Sorry for my English, I’m from DR. I’ve been assigned a grade project in college and i need some ideas on how to start. The project is about using SAN (storage area network) and make an implementation where i need to develop a service or application the takes all free space in every hard disk available on every host in the network and make a single logic unit with it. Then, distribute the files on the disks.
Any ideas?
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Okay, i read about it.
Now, how do i use that concept to build a service that does that i wrote before?
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Why build it when LVM already exists and works?
If you have to build your own (for your homework, research, etc.) – just the the source code.
Alex (DV411)
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Because that’s my project for college. I need to do that… but on a SAN environment.
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Did you check Nexentastor Community Edition? It’s free up to 12TB usage. It is based on ZFS and ZFS supports storage pooling natively. You can share the available space on each host as an iSCSI (of course you need to install a iSCSI Target Software), and on the gateway server using NexentaStor combine all available storage spaces into a single sharable storage. Gateway server can be another desktop or even VM for testing purposes, but for production i would suggest a strong server with at least 32GB of mem.
Murat Karslioglu | Co-Founder and CTO
RAIDUNDANT LLC
112 W. 9th St. Suite 226
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Tel: 213-489-9041
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Yeah, but in this project i cant use servers or an application already developed. I have to make a new one.
I need to create a service on any platform that does what i wrote there.
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Using ZFS is not the only way of course, but it would be the fastest and best way for you. Microsoft has its own version for storage pooling called DFS. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_(Microsoft). It seems like it is closer to what you want to do, but to be honest developing a useful storage pooling service or application may take years.
You can use OpenSolaris, Illumos or Linux, they’re all completely open source and have ZFS support.
I personally did, i have over 15 years of hardcore software development and storage experience. Me and three experienced engineers, it took us over 2 years to make it stable (of course with additional enterprise storage features) and another 3 years to bring it to the market (i’m talking about my NeroNAS L Series O/S). And i thought it was fast. Now considering to switch to BTRFS (another 3 months)
Let me know if there is anything i can help with. But it is not an easy project. If you can develop something from scratch let me know i’ll hire you, if can’t i’ll find you a good job (not joking).
Murat Karslioglu | Co-Founder and CTO
RAIDUNDANT LLC
112 W. 9th St. Suite 226
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Tel: 213-489-9041
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I understand that it may be hard to develop something like that from scratch. But the idea here is more simple: i would have a couple of computers in a small network and i have to make some sort of implementation similar to RAID 5 were i concentrate the hard disk of all computers into a single logic unit available to access in the network.
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hii
i m doing M.tech and i hav to do one project of 1 year duration in my 2nd year of M.tech
I want to do this project in SAN…..
so if u can give me any idea about any Project topic related to SAN thn it will be a grt help….
waiting for reply
plz reply as soon as possible i dnt have mch tyme left for my synopsis submission.thanks,
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Hi all & Akanksha Verma,
i am also doing my mtech(Embedded &Vlsi technology) now i am planing to do my project on SAN(Storage area network)..please help me on any san related projects to me…
thanks.
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