{"id":134,"date":"2009-10-17T09:13:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=134"},"modified":"2009-12-02T08:23:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:23:46","slug":"where-did-all-these-hard-drives-come-from-or-why-you-need-shared-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Where did all these hard drives come from?&#8221; or why you need shared storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shared storage is a way to virtualize storage.\u00a0 Use a shared storage device (a storage area network) like a Fibre Channel or iSCSI array, and never buy a hard drive in a server again.\u00a0 Just like virtualization allows you to <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=115\">better utilize the servers you already have<\/a>, shared storage lets you better use the hard drives you use.\u00a0 In fact, inventive use of shared storage lets you better use the hard drives you may already have in excess servers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you have some underutilized servers laying around with lots of internal drives, you can &#8220;roll your own&#8221; shared storage with shared storage software like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openfiler.com\/\">OpenFiler<\/a>.\u00a0 Software like OpenFiler allows you to reuse a server with internal drives and &#8220;make&#8221; it into a iSCSI storage array.\u00a0 OpenFiler is basically a tweaked Linux distribution with a focus on making a shared storage appliance, it&#8217;s as easy to load as Linux is.\u00a0 (I think Linux is easy, but I use it all the time.\u00a0 Even if you don&#8217;t regularly use Linux, it&#8217;s not so hard.\u00a0 Really.)<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t say &#8220;I can&#8217;t afford shared storage&#8221;.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t afford <strong>NOT<\/strong> to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared storage is a way to virtualize storage.\u00a0 Use a shared storage device (a storage area network) like a Fibre Channel or iSCSI array, and never buy a hard drive in a server again.\u00a0 Just like virtualization allows you to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}