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Hi,

     I have buffalo Enterprise Tera-station NAS (r7120) device to store the data in it. For now, I just use the NAS to store the bulk data but this data is not independent (means data that are stored on NAS is fetched via the application sever logic) so I used NAS as database means I install PHP MyAdmin (MySQL front end) on NAS and store the data inside the it. So this it seems good for now but I am having concern related to it that in future if all the drive of the NAS got filled up than how I can scale our database. below are some points that may depict our present scenario
1) I have one application server that fetch the data from the NAS.
2) I have one NAS that store the all the data inside MySQL server (in other words NAS act as Mysql server for application server)
3) Application server access the NAS using its IP (important factor) this help to connect to database inside the NAS.

My concern

1) How i can scale the drive if all the drive got filled up.
2) I have another NAS in as same as that i am using , some how i want to access the both the NAS (if it is possible) using the single IP
3) Is there any way to do this means access the scale the NAS such that the data can be access by the single IP but both NAS are attached to it (some kind of cluster of NAS ) so that application server treat NAS as single machine and single data base can Mysql automatically detect the increase hard disk space attached to it?

Please kindly give the solution as soon as possible

Thank You