[BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

[Edward Ned Harvey]

Additional to all of what you said...

When I lose a netapp disk, it automatically phones home, and they have a new
disk delivered to my office, usually before I even check my email in the
morning to discover the disk went bad.

Redhat does NFS very poorly.  You get at least 5x better performance using
the netapp instead of redhat.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org 
> [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Rudie, Tony
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:08 AM
> To: Scott Ehrlich; bblisa at bblisa.org
> Subject: RE: [BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?
> 
> We love NetApp.  Some of what we love might not interest you: 
>  HA clustering and remote replication.  Other stuff probably 
> does:  simple administration and maintenance, very 
> knowledgeable tech support.  And I'll tell you, having 
> snapshots for user homedirs is a HUGE win.  We almost never 
> have to restore user files for them.  They go get them 
> themselves, from the snapshots.
> 
> A NetApp would allow you to do NFS or CIFS export directly 
> from the NetApp box, and also do iSCSI or FC attach for the 
> big server for database stuff.  Might be a good fit.   
> 
> 
>  - Tony Rudié 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org 
> [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:57 AM
> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
> Subject: [BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?
> 
> A followup to the SCSI/SAS question -
> 
> I'm looking for RAID options for at least 10 TB to attach to 
> a Dell PowerEdge 2950 running RHEL 5 64-bit Server.
> 
> The system will act as a single sign-on server for XP and 
> Linux, thus storing user's data from mounted home directories 
> exported from the server to various 
> workstations.  It may also house a database.    I'll need a 
> storage solution 
> starting at least 10 TB.
> 
> Most of the SAS devices I've seen go up to 2 TB.  Looking at 
> the IBM System Storage devices, for example, they offer 12 TB and up.
> 
> I'm not sure of the budget, so I'll discount cost for now.
> 
> How good are IBM's rack RAID devices?   I'm just looking at 
> their System 
> Storage DS4xxx line.
> 
> How about EMC?  Network Appliance?    Clariion?
> 
> Quality of unit, reliability of unit andservice and support, 
> overall cost of 
> ownership?    Expandability?
> 
> Thanks for any and all insights.
> 
> Scott
> 
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