That's interesting. Almost everyone else I know that's run the numbers has shown a considerably higher cost per mb for SAN over DAS, and have had to use the "soft" cost justifications to get them back in line.
Granted, you were buying 5-20 times the required storage per machine, we usually shoot for 2-3 times. For grins, what's the total capacity of your SAN, and what's the current utilization at? ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Wes Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:00 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Basic SAN question > > > Disagree. We are moving all of our servers to the SAN, > including booting > the OS from the SAN. We were able to show a break even > scenario in hard > costs, and then the "soft cost" were able to push things over the top. > > Largely because of our purchasing habits, I admit. We would > buy servers > with 100 to 400 GB's of drive space because they (developers > and DBA's, not > me!) might need it within the three year lease cycle. Then > when it came off > lease they may have used 15 or 20 GB's. Also, booting from > SAN I lose the > array card along with all the hard drives. > > Again just one man's opinion. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:15 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Basic SAN question > > > IMO, the *right* answer is to not buy a SAN for generalized > storage. At the > current price-per-mb rates of SAN solutions vs. Direct Attached > Storage(DAS), I can waste a LOT of locally attached storage > before I break > even moving to a SAN. > > Don't get me wrong - SAN's have their place. I just don't think most > companies need them. And don't even get me started on NAS > boxes, either. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE > Sr. Systems Administrator > Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity > Atlanta, GA > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:27 AM > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > Subject: RE: Basic SAN question > > > > > > Thanks for the warning. > > > > I do plan on minimizing the number of LUNs, but my boss asked > > the question > > and I wanted to be sure to have the /right/ answer instead of the > > /right-now/ answer. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 7:51 AM > > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Basic SAN question > > > > > > > > > Chris, > > > > > > Most vendors will allow you to slice and dice a SAN array > > > into as many LUNs of whatever size you want. Its absolutely > > > the wrong thing to do, but it certainly can be done. > > > > > > Any time a phisical platter is partitioned, you're going to > > > take a performance hit - simply put, the heads can't be in > > > two places at once, so if two systems are trying to access > > > data which is physically on the same platter, but logically > > > on different LUNs, there is head contention, and one of the > > > two must wait for the other to finish "using" the heads, and > > > then pay the additional price of a head seek across the > > > platter to its assigned set of cylinders. > > > > > > In the case of your single 500GB RAID5 set in your SAN being > > > split into 300/100/50/50, you have in reality created 4 > > > partitions on each spindle, with 60%/20%/10%/10% split on > > > each spindle. With a large number of platters, and larger > > > stripe sizes, its theoretically possible to reduce the > > > chances of contention within the SAN, but realistically > > > speaking, chances are there is going to be some contention, > > > and therefore some performance hits associated with managing > > > your disks this way. > > > > > > Its one of the lies^H^H^H^H omissions commonly done in the > > > sales pitches of the big storage vendors. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE > > > Sr. Systems Administrator > > > Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity > > > Atlanta, GA > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Chris Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 2:07 PM > > > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > > > Subject: Basic SAN question > > > > > > > > > > > > If you have a RAID-5 array of (let's say) 500GB, can you create > > > > LUNs of an arbitrary size to be presented to the > servers? E.g, a > > > > 300GB, a 100GB, and > > > > two 50GB? 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