On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Scott Lewis wrote:
> There's plenty of video and photo professionals. Small shops don't need Xsan > and big shops can use macs. There's no reason you can't have terabytes of > enterprise storage and have macs. Your San just isn't going to be Apple. And > probably not your file server-- if you have one, since EMC, NetApp, etc have > been doing so well merging SAN and NAS. > > I trust Apple to continue to serve the desktop. I trust them to continue to > maintain the server version of their software in a way that has some neat > features for real small offices that can live with a Mini or MacPro as a > rudimentary server. > > In the mean time, my Macs can and do connect to Enterprise resources. > > I would like to see better iSCSI support. OK first you critique that Apple is out of the enterprise market, and is happy without meeting enterprise needs. So I point out that this has consequences for people who are not enterprise, and thus do not really have need for a SAN in the context given. But you say, of course you can get around the example storage problem by getting a SAN and connecting a Mac to it. Naturally such a Mac user would need a SAN to get logical volume management, because Mac OS doesn't have logical volume management, or a particularly resilient file system. It's not necessary to solve this problem with a SAN on linux, because there is very good lvm (online storage resizing, data relocation, and rw snapshots) and more resilient file systems available. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
