Dear experts,
We plan to increase storage capacity of our site. To begin
with, by a few tens of TB, in the form of RAID arrays.
And we are faced with some questions.
With the limitations on filesystem sizes, what are the good options of
deploying larger storage? Vendors do have proprietary
solutions which are expensive - but there must be other options used by
the LCG community.
How many filesystems can the LCG software of an SE handle? How many SE's
can a site have?
If we have storage devices of different i/o rates (like disks 15k
rpm/7200rpm ) how could we best use them?
Is there a way to separately store the input of WN's from output?
Also, we request sites that have already deployed large storages to help
us with their experiences.
Thank you.
Nagaraj
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