Our group is an architecture group, and we're poking into data center consolidation and enterprise NAS.
We've obviously got NetApp and Celerra on the list, as well as Isilon coming in to talk to us. Can anyone suggest other entperprise NAS solutions you've seen/used/can-or-can't recommend? Personally, I'm a fan of NetApp, having used their stuff for a long time, and assuming the company can afford it. :) One big thing we're looking at is namespace consolidation and virtualization, so that we don't have to worry so much about having many small, independent storage units. Vendors who have this functionality would be preferred, I think, to vendors that can't or won't do it, though there are always third party solutions to virtualize the NAS namespace. If anyone has experience with these, too, it might be an interesting discussion. I have no direct experience, but have been at two companies that used and *hated* RAINFinity. Acopia seems less hated. I'm not a Microsoft guy, so I'm not sure whether/how DFS could help. Thanks, -Adam _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
