Even then, those connections will still go through a mail server, and will appear as only one connection to the SAN.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > No, I probably don’t need a **lot** of connections now, although when I > bring email in-house I probably will. I plan on sharing the drive space out > through the servers, although it’s likely they’ll be on the same physical > switch as the users. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, October 09, 2009 11:50 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: NAS/SAN > > > > Do you need a lot of connections? My environment has three physical > servers, which are comprised of 2 hosts running 10 virtual servers and 1 > server running disk based backup and is a secondary AD controller. All > connections to the SAN are through a separate network/switch. I don't want > the san exposed except through the servers. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:39 AM, John Aldrich < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, I just got off the phone with a StoneFly sales engineer…He had some > interesting things to say about EMC/Dell/Equallogic/NetApp and LSI. I need > some fact-checking from people who know more than I about this sort of > thing… he said that those are “dumb” ISCSI devices that can’t handle a lot > of connections at once and that I ought to buy their product because that > hardware can handle a lot more connections and a lot higher throughput than > the competition. > > > > Was he just blowing smoke up my rear or is that stuff true? > > > > Thanks! > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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