On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:00 -0400, Adam Levin wrote: > 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.
I have had pretty good luck with Exastore (www.exastore.com). I am using it to support cifs, afp, and nfs. ski -- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe" John Muir Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803 or ski98033 on most IM services _______________________________________________ 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/
