Hello,
I'm interested in putting together a system for hosting a large number of jails. It's for a non-profit, so budget is tight, and i'm probably going to be using 2nd hand or reconditioned kit from a variety of sources. The idea is to net boot FreeBSD on nodes with reasonable amount of memory, and then mount storage either via NFS or perhaps iSCSI.
It's the storage bit I'm interested in particularly. This may be impossible, but my dream would be to have a pool of storage which spans machines. So say I started with a 2 U box with 8 320G disks in it. If someone donated another 1U box with 4 x 160G disks, I'd like to be able to add that storage to the pool, and start to take advantage of more spindles and more space.
Is this even possible? Or is it just a crazy dream
I know GlusterFS does something similar, but I'm not sure if that will work on FreeBSD. And I wonder if there's something lower level? I had a look at HAST but that seems to be a different use case altogether.
I'm interested in putting together a system for hosting a large number of jails. It's for a non-profit, so budget is tight, and i'm probably going to be using 2nd hand or reconditioned kit from a variety of sources. The idea is to net boot FreeBSD on nodes with reasonable amount of memory, and then mount storage either via NFS or perhaps iSCSI.
It's the storage bit I'm interested in particularly. This may be impossible, but my dream would be to have a pool of storage which spans machines. So say I started with a 2 U box with 8 320G disks in it. If someone donated another 1U box with 4 x 160G disks, I'd like to be able to add that storage to the pool, and start to take advantage of more spindles and more space.
Is this even possible? Or is it just a crazy dream
I know GlusterFS does something similar, but I'm not sure if that will work on FreeBSD. And I wonder if there's something lower level? I had a look at HAST but that seems to be a different use case altogether.