Some Server and File system technologies

Server technologies

Debian, RedHat, CentOS, SuSE, Slackware

Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008

File system technologies:

RAID1, RAID6 - Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks that allows achieving of high levels of storage reliability, extended capacity and performance.

LVM2 - An innovative userspace toolset that provide logical volume management facilities on linux servers.

NFS - Network File System is a network file system protocol allowing a client computer or server to access files over a network in a manner similar to a local storage.

iSCSI - Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities.

XFS - a high-performance journaling file system and particularly proficient at handling large files and at offering smooth data transfers.

DRBD - Block device designed as a building block to form high availability (HA) clusters.

GFS - Red Hat Global File System is an open source cluster file system for enterprise deployments allowing the management of cluster servers a one single instance.

OCFS - Oracle Cluster File System presents a consistent file system image across the servers in a cluster.

CLVMD - A daemon that distributes LVM metadata updates around a cluster.

LUSTRE - A Network Clustering File System designed for High Performance and Scalability.

GLUSTERFS - A cluster file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes, based on a stack able user space design.