We switched from Onstor to Exanet nodes not too long ago and haven't regretted it in the slightest. Onstor's product was actually more stable 5 years ago than it was 2 years ago. I can't vouch for it recently - talking to people at Onstor they swear they've fixed the reliability issues, but after multiple production outages because of bugs that would take down the entire cluster, not just a single node, and in some cases required hours of recovery to get back online, we just didn't feel comfortable with them any longer. Having said that, they were cheaper than a lot of their competitors, and faster, as well. We did benchmark their newer boxes and found their performance beat out just about anyone else at the same price point - except for Exanet, which is part of the reason we chose them. But Onstor blew Isilon out of the water in terms of price to performance, and Isilon blew Netapp out of the water in that regard, so... :)
We're also doing some testing w/ an Opensolaris box attached to a JBOD, and using several SSDs for caching. If what we've read is accurate, we're expecting to get very good performance for a very, very low price point. (Our box has 10 SSDs, 2 for write cache, 8 for read cache, plus 12 x 1TB disks, and 8 cores/ 24GB RAM on the system side, all for under $15k shipped. At that price point, if it's even vaguely comparable to the big boys in performance, it could be a VERY compelling system. Add in a 2nd one, mirror them w/ ZFS remote snapshots, and you have a somewhat fault-tolerant, redundant, very fast, very cheap system. 10TB of usable mirrored fast NAS for $30k? Yes please. :) ) Nicholas On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
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