1 Comment SANbox - 02/10/10
Each power supply powers one of the mainboards, and two of the fans (1 in/1 out). Prior to putting the door on the case I’m going to add a shroud onto each of the IN fans, to direct air onto the motherboards.
I mounted the boards so that all of the connectors are facing forward for ease of access.
The systems will be direct connected by a Fiber connection and a copper connection. The fiber connection will be through the Qlogic HBA that will be running a driver with TCP support for the DRBD replication. The copper connection will be an additional ring for the cluster stack to communicate.
Each system will also have a fiber and copper connection that leaves the box and plugs into the appropriate switch.
I haven’t decided how I’m going to install the base storage of 4 disks (with plans to expand to 8 soon). I’d like to have them in the case, but I’m concerned things might get to crowded – so I may build a small box and run them external. I just have to make sure the SATA runs stay less than 1m.
Here’s a picture of the case I’ve built to house the computing end of my home SAN. The lower two fans pull air into the case, the upper fans pull air out.
