Hi all - I posted about using firewire for clustering practice a couple of days ago. It turns out that this apparently requires a special, very expensive firewire solution. So I want to play around with clustering (as in high availability clustering a la Red Hat Cluster Suite, not computational clustering) at home so that I can become more proficient. The problem is, I don't want to buy a multi-thousand dollar SAN for my house. I wanted to find a way to do clustering on the cheap. I am not sure what path to take, so I am going to toss it to the list to see if anyone has any suggestions. I am totally open to older/used equipment. >From what I've been told, I need a storage device which is multi-host aware, so plain old firewire or even SCSI JBOD won't do. I've been looking at the specs at http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster/hardware/. I'm leaning towards VMWare at this point, but I'd rather do it for real than in virtual machines. Any pointers? Thanks! Thomas
