<div dir="ltr">Maybe you would consider Scality (<a href="http://www.scality.com/">http://www.scality.com/</a>) for your growth concerns. If you need speed, DDN is faster in rapid data ingestion and for extreme HPC data needs.<div><br></div><div>JustinĀ </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Tony Brian Albers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tba@kb.dk" target="_blank">tba@kb.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2017-02-13 09:36, Benson Muite wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Do you have any performance requirements?<br>
><br>
> Benson<br>
><br>
> On 02/13/2017 09:55 AM, Tony Brian Albers wrote:<br>
>> Hi guys,<br>
>><br>
>> So, we're running a small(as in a small number of nodes(10), not<br>
>> storage(170TB)) hadoop cluster here. Right now we're on IBM Spectrum<br>
>> Scale(GPFS) which works fine and has POSIX support. On top of GPFS we<br>
>> have a GPFS transparency connector so that HDFS uses GPFS.<br>
>><br>
>> Now, if I'd like to replace GPFS with something else, what should I use?<br>
>> It needs to be a fault-tolerant DFS, with POSIX support(so that users<br>
>> can move data to and from it with standard tools).<br>
>><br>
>> I've looked at MooseFS which seems to be able to do the trick, but are<br>
>> there any others that might do?<br>
>><br>
>> TIA<br>
>><br>
><br>
<br>
</span>Well, we're not going to be doing a huge amount of I/O. So performance<br>
requirements are not high. But ingest needs to be really fast, we're<br>
talking tens of terabytes here.<br>
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/tony<br>
</font></span><span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
--<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Tony Albers<br>
Systems administrator, IT-development<br>
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