Tom Perrine wrote: > 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? >> > > Take a look at BlueArc. We've been a NetApp shop for 10+ years, and our most > recent big purchase was BlueArc instead. > I don't do storage much anymore but the storage wizards here like the > virtualization features, and the performance is > through the roof. I'd consider ot a competitor to the larger NetApps, > though, not the smaller. > > At work, we just made a largeish purchase of DDN front-ended with GPFS (IBM). On the plus side, the GPFS client handling can be scaled completely independently from the back-end storage capacity. Also on the plus side, GPFS has a thousand knobs to tweak. On the minus side, GPFS has a thousand knobs to tweak.
You should talk to Isilon too, though. They have some pretty cool technology and have a nice scalability story and are in a large of large data shops (like DDN). I think you'll find that either/both of them will be comparatively less expensive than something like BlueArc (check references). Check your feature list vs. those provided. Features differ significantly. Do you want something that can rebuild your 1TB missing raid-6 disk in 10 minutes or unlimited snapshots? Isilon would be a good bet. Do you want storage tiering capabilities and data migration with an extensive policy engine? GPFS/DDN has a solution. etc.. Do you want to pay a boatload of money? Netapp.. ;) _______________________________________________ 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/
