data storage solution

Hi,

I've got a Dell NX1950 w/ an MD3000 attached (7 drives in the cabinet).
This machine came with Windows Unified Data Storage Server, something
I'm not well versed with. I'd feel more comfortable with a Linux
solution on there, but have never set one of these up. My users are
either on Windows or Linux machines. I know this isn't' a backup
solution, but my goal is to give them something to copy files to and
I'll take it from there.

Can anyone comment on what I'd need to do or how difficult it would be
to get the NX1950 to talk to the MD3000 (iSCSI) using linux? Guess I'd
need to do hardware raid first so that if a disk fails, I can replace
it, then use an iSCSI module to get the 1950 to talk to the MD3000. So
a user can just upload files to the NX1950 and they somehow (cause I
don't know how these work) get placed on the drives in the cabinet?
Sort of like a big NAS drive? Am I understanding any of this correctly?
Or is there any benefit to doing this and maybe I should just learn
WUDSS?

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:14:38 -0800, Shane <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a Dell NX1950 w/ an MD3000 attached (7 drives in the cabinet).
> This machine came with Windows Unified Data Storage Server, something
> I'm not well versed with. I'd feel more comfortable with a Linux
> solution on there, but have never set one of these up. My users are
> either on Windows or Linux machines. I know this isn't' a backup
> solution, but my goal is to give them something to copy files to and
> I'll take it from there.
>
> Can anyone comment on what I'd need to do or how difficult it would be
> to get the NX1950 to talk to the MD3000 (iSCSI) using linux? Guess I'd
> need to do hardware raid first so that if a disk fails, I can replace
> it, then use an iSCSI module to get the 1950 to talk to the MD3000. So a
> user can just upload files to the NX1950 and they somehow (cause I don't
> know how these work) get placed on the drives in the cabinet? Sort of
> like a big NAS drive? Am I understanding any of this correctly? Or is
> there any benefit to doing this and maybe I should just learn WUDSS?

If you can get the NX1950 to speak linuxly to the MD3000, then I would in
my ignorance imagine you could share the storage using SMB or NFS or such
like protocols.

/dps


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