On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Paul Beltrani <[email protected]> wrote: > We're looking for a basic, enterprise class appliance to serve 15TB to > 30TB of mission critical storage via NFS. We're considering the > offerings from NetApp and EMC but they're much more than we need. For > example, we don't need features like mirroring or remote replication. > > Would anyone care to recommend a vendor or appliance they're happy with? > > - Paul Beltrani >
Thank you to everyone who replied. I appreciate your time and input. There was a good discussion that included some nice sub-topics like NetApp VS Sun and issues with Backups. Please refer to the archives for details. A list of the vendors and products mentioned is summarized below. - Paul Beltrani Vendors/Products mentioned: BlueArc: http://www.bluearc.com/ No details. Compellent: http://www.compellent.com/ No details. EMC Celerra: http://www.emc.com/products/family/celerra-family.htm Mentioned in the original post. IBM: In a direct reply someone said they were thrilled with the support they received for the NAS gear they had purchased from IBM. I found that interesting as we have had an extremely bad experience with an IBM SAN product. It turns out the difference in our experiences may have to do with the fact the SAN product was an IBM acquisition and they had to reach out to a third party engineering team for any but the most basic support. (The SAN unit was is the DS5100 and the third party is LSI Corporation.) Isilon Systems: http://www.isilon.com/ No details in the thread. However I have heard from people in person that they were very pleased with the Isilon gear. NetApp: http://www.netapp.com/ Mentioned in the original post. Pillar Data Systems: http://www.pillardata.com/ No details. Sun 4000 series: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/open-storage/index.html I'm not sure I would consider these NAS appliances but they do look like a cost effective path to a Solaris NFS server. Edward Ned Harvey posted he had good experience replacing a NetApp with this type of solution. This started a small subthread with some discussion of the NetApp VS Sun Storage option. Check the archive of for details. Sun 7000 series: http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/products.jsp Looks much more robust than the 4000 series and includes clustering options. Side note: Corporate Technologies was mentioned as a good resource for Sun gear. http://www.cptech.com I'll second that. I've worked with them several times in the past and it was always a positive experience. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
