In the message dated: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:07:01 -0000, The pithy ruminations from "Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)" on <RE: [lopsa-discuss] experience w. Infortrend & other less-than-tier1 storage> were: => > From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- => > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) => > => > If you pay the extra, you're paying for lower risk. There is no absolute right => > and wrong choice - lots of times the low cost vendor is ok, and sometimes => > the high cost vendor is *not* ok. You can only make a blind guess as to => > whether or not the difference of risk is worth the extra cost. Base it on the => > value and importance of your data and system staying up, versus difference => > of cost of hardware. => => BTW - if there is an absolute right answer, it's this: => => Don't choose. Instead, get quotes for both options, present => both options to management with an explanation of the difference in
Sorry, but even that isn't the 'absolute right answer'. Passing the decision to someone else may be the answer in your environment, but for me at $WORK, I wear enough of a management hat that this is my responsibility. => risk. Describe the level of diligence you've put into assessing the => difference in risk (reaching out to folks on LOPSA, researching internet, => etc), describe what (if anything) you could do to get more information => with more diligence, but ultimately, you're trying to predict the future => of your own solution having problems, and it's impossible to get a 100% => accurate assessment. You can only guess. Acknowledge that a decision Of course. => must be made based on vague probabilities and guesses, but there's => good reason to believe that the higher cost system probably has lower Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to understand, and why I asked for responses from people who had experience with a specific manufacturer. Thanks, Mark => risk. And that's all you can do. => => => _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
