I just spent the week assisting with the install of IBM’s GPFS and Cluster NFS (CNFS) on RedHat 5.2 Linux.
We created a 30TB filesystem to store large digital media using GPFS running on multiple x3850 and x3650 servers.
This allowed multiple GPFS clients to simultaneously share the filesystem.
CNFS was configured to support server the digital media over standard NFS to the multiple DCP-2000 Digital Cinema Servers
with high availability and security. Quick and easy failover. Low costs Intel Servers, RedHat, and SATA disks combined to create
a high performance and highly scalable filesystem (up to 2PB).
Let me know if anyone is looking to create large shared filesystems that can support direct SAN Block level access, NFS, or CIFS.
