Speaking of BlueArc, their storage going wonky was behind the huge outages Media Temple experienced earlier in the year. http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog/2009/03/06/anatomy-of-storage-on-the-grid/
. o 0 (wonders if Jordan will comment) -- Brandon Burton sysadmin and technologist http://www.inatree.org/ On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:01 PM, James Braid <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 20:47, Adam Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, John Stoffel wrote: > >> Fun! > > > > One of the better jobs I've had. :) > > > >> I like Netapp too, but I'm getting more and more pissed at their silly > >> 16Tb limit on aggregates, it really starts killing you when you have > >> 12 shelves, each with 14 1Tb drives in them. It makes carving up > >> storage painful again. > > > > I agree -- it's been a longtime beef of mine that they insist on limiting > > capacities based on what they think I want. I wish they would allow me > to > > exceed their limits with the understanding that it could affect > > performance -- especially when I know I don't need performance in favor > of > > large archives and such. > > The 16TB aggregate limit is a hard 32-bit addressing limit in Data > ONTAP - version 8 has 64-bit aggregates but they still don't increase > the aggregate limits all that much - maximum is 50 - 100TB depending > on platform IIRC. > > (been bitten by the 16TB limit - now we use Bluearc for our big > storage and Netapp for smaller stuff like /home and our software mount > points) > > _______________________________________________ > 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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