On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Arthur Gaer wrote:
Let me add my own strong second to Tony's NetApp recommendation, for pretty
much all the reasons Tony listed.
My favorite pieces of server-ish equipment ever. Incredibly reliable,
excellent tech support, relatively easy to configure. Once configured the
way you need it just works forever with practically no SysAdmin intervention
needed, so you can spend your limited time dealing with more interesting
topics than continuously reliable file storage.
Snapshots are definitely a huge win--I've only ever had to retrieve files
from tape three times in the seven years I've had NetApps. Every other time
someone lost a file or needed an earlier version it was already sitting on
the NetApp in a snapshot directory, available for the user's own retrieval.
Arthur Gaer
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Senior Systems Manager, Department of Mathematics
Harvard University, 617-495-1610, FAX: 617-495-5132
Having previous experience with netapps and snapshots as well, I can also
attest to their magic.
Other than Netapp, what other company supports it? Otherwise, how
difficult to implmenet within RHEL 5 Server on the RAID??
Thanks.
Scott
On Aug 22, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Rudie, Tony wrote:
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
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