Is this software for me?

[kazack]

Hi everyone,

I have been searching for quite sometime and am not really sure what I need so I will tell you what I am wanting to do and maybe someone can point me in the right direction:

12 Hp Dl360 Dual xeon 3.6 with raid 1 - 2 x 36 Gig Hard Drives.
1 - Seagate Black Armor 440 - 4 x 3 Tb Drives.

Looking to install centos on all 12 servers.
Don't want none of the servers to beable to remotely mount another users file system.

Looking to do like a simple cloud / Virtual storage setup.

Server 1 wants 100gb, I create a file system and mount it on their server.
Server 2 wants 1 tb, I create file system for server 2.
Server 1 needs another 100gb 3 months later, I create another filesystem and mount it.

Etc all the way down for all 12 servers. I thought this would be the more economical route than to get individual drives in an external enclosure for each server. Plus if someone needs more space I can kinda like virtually assign it to them and mount it.

But the issue is with what I have read, you can have more than one server access a created file system and I do not want this.

I am starting out on a small budget otherwise I would look at a larger picture for doing this and spending the $15K+, but I am not at that level yet to do that. So the question is, is this software what I am looking for? Is the software (if any one is familiar with it.) provided by seagate for their black armor devices sufficient enough?

Or what I am wanting to not even capable on the small level that I am working with and just buy external enclosures and hook them up individually?

Thanks for everyone's time,
Shawn Mulligan

[Al-S]

Yes our system can do this.

You can do an IP restrictions on the targets, so you have only one server can see only one FS.

Just create 12 iSCSI targets and give each LV to each target,
and for each target specify a different IP restriction ( that related to a specific CentOS host).

[webguyz]

Hi everyone,

... So the question is, is this software what I am looking for? Is the software (if any one is familiar with it.) provided by seagate for their black armor devices sufficient enough?

Or what I am wanting to not even capable on the small level that I am working with and just buy external enclosures and hook them up individually?

Thanks for everyone's time,
Shawn Mulligan

I just looked up the Seagate Black Armor boxes and they are a dedicated stand alone NAS with their own software. I don't think you can load Open-E on that hardware as whatever hardware you have has to be on the Hardware Compatability list.