Yeah. but the point is I'm trying to take the storage roll *off* the existing two servers and put the storage on a dedicated storage appliance. Hooking an external raid array to the existing servers wouldn't do me much good in that respect. J
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Starwind 5.0 You can run the controller software on existing servers, depending on their function and load. And there are multiple ways to connect to the storage you need, including SCSI and FC and iSCSI ASB (My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:37 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: Exactly. To have redundancy, I'd have to build/buy two more servers to attach to what are essentially external raid arrays, correct? John-AldrichTile-Tools From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Starwind 5.0 One server can manage multiple SANs. You should consider redundancy, though. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _____ From: "John Aldrich" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:25:43 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Subject: RE: Starwind 5.0 Ah. Never mind then. J I don't want to build two new servers to have two SANs. I want it all built together. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Starwind 5.0 Essentially, yes. You build a server with gobs of storage attached, and then run this software on it to present it to your infrastructure as an iSCSI storage network. ASB (My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:32 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for that link. I filled out a request for more info. That being said, it looks like it's trying to use your server as the "brains" for the SAN, is that right? John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Starwind 5.0 For those looking for small/medium sized SANS w/o the expense. The latest SW5 has HA now .. Ive got their older version running in my datacenter and its been decent no real complaints on performance for the price. http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-v5-preview No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.20/2440 - Release Date: 10/16/09 06:32:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
<<image001.jpg>>
<<image002.jpg>>
