[NCSA] NC*SA June 9th Meeting: High Availability Storage for Low Dollars

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***   NC*SA System Admin Survival Series ***

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is next Monday, June 9th, 2008.
Details about the meeting are provided in this note.
We hope to see you there!
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(Please notice the location of the meeting is CHANGED.
This meeting is located at Shodor at Durham downtown. //
//More detailed text directions at the end of this message)/

Topic: High Availability Storage for Low Dollars
Time: 7 pm Monday, June 9th, 2008
Location: Shodor, 440 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701 ,
(Directions at the end of this email)
Speaker: Smion Karpen, System Admin at Shodor

Topic: High Availability Storage for Low Dollars

If you have the budget for a commercial (i.e. EMC, Netapp)
high availability storage solution, then you're one of the
lucky ones. For the rest of us, we'll discuss the nuts and
bolts of how to use commodity hardware and and several open
source software components to build a low-dollar
high-availability storage solution.

You've seen the usual shared disk arrays and such, but this is
different; this is clustered storage without any shared storage
hardware. All you need is good network connectivity between the
storage servers.

Even if you have the budget for 'real' storage for your core
production apps, this could be an excellent solution for a
development or lab environment.

Presenter:
Simon Karpen is the System Administrator at
Shodor, a National Resource Resource for Computational
Science Education. He has a degree in Computer Science
from RPI (Rensselaer, not Rochester). Simon has also taught
System Admin related classes at a local university and
runs a small system infrastructure / architecture consulting
firm. In his spare time, he's trying to spend more time with
his 4-year-old daughter and get more sleep.

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Directions:

 From Chapel Hill:
Take 15/501 North to NC-147 (Durham Freeway) south.
Take Exit 13 (Chapel Hill Street, do not confuse with Chapel Hill Road)
Turn left at the end of the ramp (towards downtown)
Take Chapel Hill street to Foster Street.
Turn left on Foster Street. You will cross Morgan street and then pass 
the YMCA.
Parking is in the "Durham Center" lot past the YMCA. As it is after 
business hours, you can park anywhere you want in the lot. There is also 
street parking on Foster Street (shorter walk).

 From Raleigh:
Take I-40 West to Durham Freeway (NC-147)
Take Durham Freeway (NC-147) Northbound
Take Exit 13 (Chapel Hill Street, do not confuse with Chapel Hill Road)
Turn right at the end of the ramp (towards downtown)
Take Chapel Hill street to Foster Street.
Turn left on Foster Street. You will cross Morgan street and then pass 
the YMCA.
Parking is in the "Durham Center" lot past the YMCA. As it is after 
business hours, you can park anywhere you want in the lot. There is also 
street parking on Foster Street (shorter walk).

 From Durham/RTP:
If you are south of downtown, take Durham Freeway (147) North and follow 
the rest of the Raleigh directions
(this is also valid for anybody in RTP)
If you are north of downtown, take Durham Freeway (147) South and follow 
the rest of the Chapel Hill directions

Google maps:
If you ask for directions to 440 Foster St, Durham, NC 27701 that will 
take you right to the entrance for the parking lot.

Once you have parked:
Walk towards the "Durham Center" building (the huge glass one, hard to 
miss)
Go through the parking deck elevator or stairs to the "P" level
Go through the front door and sign in at the security desk. You're going 
to visit Shodor on the 11th floor for a meeting (this will make sense 
once you see the form)
Take the building elevator to the 11th floor and follow the signs for 
the NC*SA meeting

Directions to the meeting are available on the web at
http://www.ncsysadmin.org/directions.
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