On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:00:19AM -0800, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
If my understanding is correct a simple NAS is: 1. A storage space available over the network 2. Fault tolerant 3. Expandable 4. Transparent 5. Compatible across OSes
add 1. rack space costs (NAS / SAN devices typically have far lower form factor than if you try to run a bunch of fileservers across to a datacenter) 2. out of the box and just works - most of the time. you dont have to sacrifice white chickens and mutter incantations all the time like you would with a homecooked solution 3. hot swappable modules in your NAS / SAN 4. lots and lots more redundancy and failover built in 5. A SLA with your vendor that you can enforce if things turn out bad ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
