[nylug-talk] Cluster & SAN Docs

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Matthew Barr <mbarr at mbarr.net> wrote:
> Yikes!  The best solution isn't going to be one that you can pick up
>  off this list, with that level of info.
>
>  You're going to have a hard time of it - attempting to do a cluster w/
>  shared SAN storage on  linux platform... I can guarantee you'll have
>  problems.  The most senior linux admins have trouble with this stuff-
>  it's not trivial.

I have had great results with GFS using fiber attached EMC storage to
implement an ETL cluster (Informatica).

If you can use RHEL5 you don't need to buy the cluster suite, it's all
included in the base OS including a GUI.

Lee