On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Old cynic speaking here: > > Yes, they both have the same weak point: humans. > > In my experience the only storage technology that ever let me down badly > was a decrepit Arena locally-attached badly designed POS. > > The humans that *run* the storage failed me many times. The SAN never > deleted a LUN, the humans did - more than once. > > If you are assessing risk, do keep that one in mind. > > Other than that, no storage technology is really inherently better than > any other, some are just better suited to what you need and have budget > for. > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > > > Hello Alan, Thanks for joining us! I am a big believer of KISS, and was also hoping on eventually getting some up-to-date simple and efficient strategies to deploying and managing SANs in a virtualized environment to mitigate things like human error. Things like zoning using (world wide name/ n_port id virualization), LUN mapping and masking etc... Using the typical architecture Host (VM1, VM2, VMn)<------>SAN<--------> Virtual Storage. It would be interesting in knowing are handling the said, and also felxable way of backing up of virutal storage drives, snapshots etc... Kind Regards, Nick.
