mount external storage in an application

[coolmike]

Hi

We have a customer who is using at the moment 200GB Diskspace in the cloud and he is planing to use much more in the future. We don't want to "waste" so much expensive storage in the grid. Therefore we look for a solution to mount external storage in an existing application.

What is the best way to achieve this?

Regards
Michael

[SeanCurry]

I'm no expert in the cloud provider you're talking about, but if they support NFS or ISCSI, you could perform a mount operation with an external or out interface. I'd suggest that the performance might not be acceptable for much more than a backup volume though...

[PeterNic]

@Sean - thanks, this is correct. AppLogic appliances can access any IP-based storage (including CIFS, NFS or iSCSI) either through external (raw) interfaces or through terminals+gateway.

Interestingly enough, you can also do the opposite - you can use the grid's built-in storage to provide iSCSI targets by building an iSCSI target appliance attached to a content volume.

@Michael - let me know if you have further questions

Best regards,
- Peter

[SeanCurry]

Peter,
Is there a way to mount the boot volume from an external ISCSI/NFS target for an appliance (rather than just using an ISCSI initiator to access a volume for application storage or something. I'm sure I'm missing something, it seams like it wouldn't be impossible to do.

Sean