Xsan with WebObjects

Hi,

Has anyone here ever tried using Apple's Xsan technology to serve  
images from a web server?

I will soon be putting together an environment with multiple web  
servers and multiple WebObjects application servers. All Xserves. Our  
application allows us to upload images and have them available to the  
web server for displaying to the web browser. These are typical web  
files anywhere between 500 bytes to 1 MB in size. There will be LOTS  
of them. Millions actually. I was hoping that I could use Xsan so my  
application servers can write the files and the web servers can read  
the files all from the same location. This would be an Xserve RAID.

I've seen a lot of talk on using Xsan with video footage (very large  
files --> few requests) and no talk about using Xsan with many small  
files and many many requests.

Is Xsan an appropriate solution to this problem? Or should I be  
looking at a different solution? If so, what would that be? I want a  
fully redundant environment so if something goes down, our web site  
is still up and running just as before. I also want the ability to  
upgrade the OS on various machines over time without having to take  
down the site.

Thanks,

Brendan


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