Anything newer than a F840 is a NAS/SAN. It's a traditional NAS and you can have block level access to a LUN via FC, just like a "traditonal" SAN. It would be like taking an EMC and sticking a Ethernet NIC on it. Also anything newer than the 800 series gives you iSCSI for free. It will be interesting to see how quickly Exchange and iSCSI come along.
Steve Evans SDSU Foundation -----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:51 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN I thought NetApp only made NAS boxes, not SANs. Oh, yeah - snapshots don't work, but a local backup to disk (with NTBackup) would most likely smoke. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Couch, Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:34 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > > I have run into this in a couple of situations. One where we had a > cluster communicating to a SAN and the other where we had a single > member server talking to a SAN. In both cases I have seen network > communications problems result in the IS shutting down because the SA > can't talk to it. In the cluster environment the Cluster Server > restarts the service just fine after about 5 minutes. In the single > server environment I have seen this occur as well. However, I have > also seen where the SAN (Network > Appliance) corrupted > the file because there was a backup going on at the same time the > snapshot was being taken. In this case we simply do a snapshot > restore and we are back up in about 15-20 minutes. In this case we > adjusted the backup job to start well after the snapshot was taken and > haven't had any problems since. > > I hope this helps. > > Nate Couch > EDS Messaging > > > > ---------- > > From: Rosales, Mario > > Reply To: Exchange Discussions > > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:16 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Exchange and SAN > > > > Has anyone ran Exchange in a SAN, and were there any issues > with it? I've > > always had a raid array attached to it which could be the > same thing but > > did > > not know if there were any major differences? Any help would be > > appreciate it. > > > > Thanks, > > Mario > > > > > > > ************************************************************** > ************ > > * > > The contents of this communication are intended only for > the addressee > > and > > may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you > are not the > > intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this > > communication and notify the sender. Opinions, conclusions > and other > > information in this communication that do not relate to the official > > business of my company shall be understood as neither given > nor endorsed > > by > > it. > > > ************************************************************** > ************ > > * > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Web Interface: > > > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&la > ng=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
