Homemade SAN on Ubuntu?

[Bart Silverstrim]

howard chen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Are there recommended/popular solutions for Ubuntu which allow user to
> build a SAN using homemade/opensource technologies?
> 
> My case:
> 
> I have 10+ web servers, which connnected to a centralized storage
> server via NFS. The storage is busy as each request to the web servers
> need to fetch HTML from the centralized server. The storage server
> also host a lot of images files to be served.
> 
> Surely this is the bottomneck for my system. Also, scalablity is not
> good as the storage capacity is limited by one server. So I want to
> explore any opensource solutions which can solve my problem.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Depends on your hardware and switch, too.

You can take a look at FreeNAS.

-Bart