Not yet, but I think my company will want me to play with it, since they're antisan as well, I'll let you know.
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: "Andrew Hodgson"
To: "Blind sysadmins list"
Sent: 6/28/2008 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] San/shared storage usage
Hi,
Have you any experience with this package?
Andrew.
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From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Ryan Shugart
Sent: 28 June 2008 14:57
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] San/shared storage usage
Andrew:
Have you taken a look at a product called San Melody? Its much
cheaper than conventional SANs since it runs ontop of regular Windows
servers, but it's a lot cheaper, and I believe is targeted at your
situation. Its no Netapp by any means, but its still better than
nothing.
http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANmelody.asp
Ryan
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[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Andrew Hodgson
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 4:57 AM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] San/shared storage usage
Hi,
Thanks for that.
Of course I agree with you about the fact that we shouldn't be looking
at price first and formost, but unfortunately the business is not behind
us with the SAN purchase, so it inevitably comes into play.
They did give me a budget which was seriously short of even the most
basic NetAp filer, so I think we will have to stay with DAS solutions.
We also have a big data centre refresh pending, so that may have to take
priority.
Andrew.
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From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
JoeY
Sent: 28 June 2008 00:42
To: 'Blind sysadmins list'
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] San/shared storage usage
Features and price is only a small factor when it comes to your
companies
data.
I really like Netapp because with snapshot, snap mirror, iSCSI, and too
many
details under the hood to get into here, it provides the performance and
redundancy that we need.
I run Exchange, MS SQL over iSCSI to the Netapp, and there's also
several
Sybase NFS connections, as well as being our central CIFS server. It's
been
reliable, and if you scale it correctly, you can really throw a lot at
it.
We've outgrown the different models, from the 760's, 270, and 3020's.
And
now are looking at the 6000 series, not because of the throughput, but
we
need more connections to the filer heads.
So, without writing a huge review, I like the Netapp.
We previously looked at the EMC offerings, and they seemed overly
complex.
With Netapp, we had a clustered head, with several disk shelves for
redundancy, and spindle count. To recreate this environment of
redundancy,
EMC offered an architecture that required three of their different
server
modules. We thought that in our environment, having one "controller"
was so
much more easier to manage.
~Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Andrew
Hodgson
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 6:17 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] San/shared storage usage
Hi,
Just wondering if anyone out there is using any shared storage system?
We are looking to possibly get one for the company, but I am interested
in
looking at other venders instead of EMC, NetAp, etc, mainly as you seem
to
be locked into using a lot of their other hardware, which leads to being
quite expensive.
It will probably have to be an iSCSI presentation.
Thanks.
Andrew.
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