[BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Bill Rucker wrote:

> Somewhere around Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:36:21PM -0400, a message
> from Scott Ehrlich went like this:
>> Let me clarify -
>>
>> I'm wondering what companies, other than Network Appliance, also
>> incorporate snapshot capability?   Maybe they all do, and use different
>> wording, or some implementations are better/preferred than others?
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Scott
>
> EMC with their Clariion/Celerra line provides snapshots also. The benefit they
> have over Netapp is the snapshots can be saved on a separate volume so the
> production filesystem is not cluttered with the snapshots. I can attest to the
> use of the EMC solution as it works very well.

For my own knowledge, why is having snapshots on their own volume better 
than cluttered?    Any particular scenarios where a separate volume for 
the snapshopts works better than cluttered?

Also, any other configuration and/or performance differences between the 
netapp and emc?

Thanks again.

Scott

>
> Bill Rucker
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