FWIW... The below quoted paragraph sounds similar to why we migrated away from Falconstor a couple years ago. In particular, we had a lot of cases where a misbehavior of one back-end storage device would take down the whole cluster (not just storage that was based on the troubled back-end device).
They said they were working on it, but fixes along with the next major version of their product were too long in coming. Given the track record up to that point, we didn't feel comfortable being the first customer to install a new major version straight in to production, and we were hurting too much to stay the course. I would be interested to hear if any more recent Falconstor customers have had better luck... Their feature set and product roadmap really did seem like it had a lot of good potential. I wonder how it played out after we parted ways... From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicholas Tang Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Cc: LOPSA Discuss List Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] enterprise NAS 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.
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