[152110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Storage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Thu Apr 12 18:04:24 2012
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:03:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Maverick <myeaddress@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+vWMo6+REhB1gELgtkKgJ3eZ9V2b5rckfC+5OWtHZswgX7erA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Maverick wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Can you please comment on what is best solution for storing network
> traffic. We have been graciously granted access by our network
> administrator to capture traffic but the one Tera byte disk space is
> no match with the data that we are seeing, so it fills up quickly. We
> can't get additional space on the server itself so I am looking for
> some external solutions. Can you please suggest something that would
> be best for Gbps speeds .
I have done this two ways in the past, first is the simple way, LSI raid
card with lots of disks and some nice 10 gig capture cards. The 2nd way is
to use Gluster, over a large number of hosts with infiniband connecting
them together.
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Nathan Stratton
nathan at robotics.net
http://www.robotics.net
