What is Aurinoco's NAS service » History » Version 1
Charles Atkinson, 18/05/2018 12:02
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| 3 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | h1. What is Aurinoco's NAS service? |
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| 5 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | Aurinoco's NAS service provides networked file systems such as Windows shares. |
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| 7 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | h2. Features |
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| 9 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Provided by monitored servers in A/C rooms with UPS backup and Diesel generators |
| 10 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Primary storage on mirrored hard disks. Standby and backup storage on plain hard disks |
| 11 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Backup and synchronisation to standby via snapshots |
| 12 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Backup retention for 28 days |
| 13 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Space in increments of 100 GB, max 80% utilisation. |
| 14 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Group and user administration |
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| 16 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | h2. Cost |
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| 18 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | The NAS service requires disks and associated servers. Thus it has a real cost in hardware that has to be bought outside Auroville. So Aurinoco must charge. Prices were calculated to cover actual cost only. |
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| 20 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Rs.10 per GB per year, increments of 100 GB |
| 21 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Rs.5,000 per year contribution to server costs |
| 22 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Free buildings, AC, de-humidification and UPS |
| 23 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Free systems administration |
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| 25 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | The contribution to server costs is based on ten clients. If there are more, we will drop the server contribution and increase the per GB per year to give a lower overall cost to each client and an more equitable division of server costs amongst the clients. |
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| 27 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | h3. Cost comparison with commercial offerings |
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| 29 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | Direct comparisons are impossible because: |
| 30 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Typical commercial offerings do not include mirrored disks for primary storage, a standby server or backup. |
| 31 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Remote commercial offerings are accessed at Internet speed rather than Aurinoco's in-Auroville network speed |
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| 33 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | For example, a Hetzner "storage box":https://www.hetzner.com/storage-box is cheaper than Aurinoco's NAS service. In May 2018 and ignoring any currency conversion costs: |
| 34 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Hetzner BX10 has 100 GB for Eur 2.90 pcm > Eur 35 pa > Rs.2,800 pa. Aurinoco's NAS service for 100 GB would be 6,000 pa. |
| 35 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | * Hetzner BX30 has 1 TB for Eur 7.90 pcm > Eur 94 pa > Rs.7,500 pa. Aurinoco's NAS service for 1 TB would be 15,000 pa. |
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| 37 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | h1. Supported networked file systems |
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| 39 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | h2. CIFS share (previously SMB share, commonly known as Windows share) |
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| 41 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | The service is waiting for its first client. |
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| 43 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | h2. NFSv4 |
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| 45 | 1 | Charles Atkinson | In development. |