how did we go from an 8bay synnology nas to a cluster?
I intended to ask for a general "idea" discussion, and it immediately escalated to clusters lol.
Since storage cluster, Ceph, cloud and so on where suggested here I guess. Nevermind.
No problem at all. I think clusters are the future. I've always been interested in clusters ever since I built a Beowulf cluster back in the day. I've been following Ceph for a while, and recently have been reading about GlusterFS. Whether it is appropriate for homelabs is a question as is the cost. I've seen a lot of discussion about Ceph, but it seems like a lot of homelabbers are running quite small Ceph clusters on old hardware "just because." While I am all in for doing fun things like that, the constraint for me is I'm not willing to do that for a long term system. For example, if my hard disk budget is $5,000 or $10,000, with another $3,000 for a server, I probably would not go with a solution I'm not confident in adminning.
Even in the enterprise, and I think many will concur with me, GUIs are very important. While it helps some less CLI-adverse admins, IMHO it helps cut down on entry error for CLI. I've made my fair share of entry mistakes in the CLI when I'm dead tired, to disastrous results. Once as a junior analyst years ago I cost my client $50,000+ an hour in losses for almost a whole day
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but somehow didn't get fired because I fixed and learned from it. Broke the thing, fixed the thing, and wrote the DR on the broken thing
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