Hi All,
I'm looking to make an NFS and Samba server for my lab at work. I work for a large tech company and I have inherited an old, but still useful 3Par T400 SAN. The SAN has about 90TB of storage on it. The SAN speaks only fiber channel and iscsi. I need to be able to serve up NFS and cifs from my SAN, so I will front end it with a server. I have access to HP DL and BL servers, and would prefer to use my BL server since I have a FC switch in my C3000 chassis already. My BL servers also have 10Gig nics and 8 Gig FC HBAs in them already.
I'm looking for an easy to use OS that preferably loads on Flash or SD (so that I don't need local hard drives). I would prefer that OS is optimized to run on flash, and isn't constantly writing the flash file system to not burn up the flash. It would be nice to have a UI that could give me nice formatted statistics. The OS needs to be able to support Fiber Channel HBAs (qlogic) or be an iscsi initiator (note, I don't need the server to be an iscsi target).
I have used unraid for a long time, and I think unraid would be great for this. I obviously wouldn't use a parity disk, and would just mount one large 10TB (or so disk) on unraid and serve from that. However, I don't think unraid supports FC HBAs or iscsi initiators.
To be clear I do not need the operating system to provide fault tolerance at all, that is done in the SAN. I need the OS to provide ease of use and bridge file sharing protocols with SAN protocols.
I'm looking for something with a nice GUI, easy to learn and setup, optimized to run from flash, and supports FC or iscsi as drives. Thanks in advance.
I'm looking to make an NFS and Samba server for my lab at work. I work for a large tech company and I have inherited an old, but still useful 3Par T400 SAN. The SAN has about 90TB of storage on it. The SAN speaks only fiber channel and iscsi. I need to be able to serve up NFS and cifs from my SAN, so I will front end it with a server. I have access to HP DL and BL servers, and would prefer to use my BL server since I have a FC switch in my C3000 chassis already. My BL servers also have 10Gig nics and 8 Gig FC HBAs in them already.
I'm looking for an easy to use OS that preferably loads on Flash or SD (so that I don't need local hard drives). I would prefer that OS is optimized to run on flash, and isn't constantly writing the flash file system to not burn up the flash. It would be nice to have a UI that could give me nice formatted statistics. The OS needs to be able to support Fiber Channel HBAs (qlogic) or be an iscsi initiator (note, I don't need the server to be an iscsi target).
I have used unraid for a long time, and I think unraid would be great for this. I obviously wouldn't use a parity disk, and would just mount one large 10TB (or so disk) on unraid and serve from that. However, I don't think unraid supports FC HBAs or iscsi initiators.
To be clear I do not need the operating system to provide fault tolerance at all, that is done in the SAN. I need the OS to provide ease of use and bridge file sharing protocols with SAN protocols.
I'm looking for something with a nice GUI, easy to learn and setup, optimized to run from flash, and supports FC or iscsi as drives. Thanks in advance.