It's not so much the size as the normal performance and the restore time. If it performs well in your environment, and the restore time for a wiped drive is within your SLAs, then I wouldn't worry about it.
Kurt On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 09:48, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, good points. > > > > Still interested generally what people do with their file servers – not sure > if I’m just being old school in thinking that a single 8tb drive is a bad > idea. > > > > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 05 September 2010 17:25 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: How big are your LUNs? > > > > Make sure your SAN vendor allows you to grow and shrink LUN’s on the fly. > > Same with volumes. > > That way you can easily reallocate space. > > > > From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 9:00 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: How big are your LUNs? > > > > I suspect we’d want to use Windows features such as DFS-R and other things > which I believe rules CIFS on a filer of any sort out. > > > > Thin, I have similar reservations, but I’m just chewing over options so that > we don’t end up with the proverbial one LUN that’s nearly full whilst > another LUN has lots of free space and so on. > > > > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 05 September 2010 16:52 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: How big are your LUNs? > > > > If you had a NetApp, you could use it as a NAS and serve files directly from > there. No need for a file server. Use flexvols and grow them on the fly. > > > > As for thin provisioning, I strongly advise people not to use it. More often > than not it bites them in the ass since they don’t keep a close enough eye > on the storage system and suddenly they are out of disk space. I’ve seen it > happen WAY too many times and explaining how you need to buy a new shelf of > disk is not a fun convo with the CFO. > > > > From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 8:44 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: How big are your LUNs? > > > > As per my other thread I’m looking at SAN vendors. Our main file server has > around 8tb on it right now, spread across multiple “thick” LUNs of around > 2tb each. > > > > Assuming we’re going to be running Windows 2008 R2, what are people’s > opinions on provisioning storage to a file server as multiple smaller LUNs > or fewer larger LUNs? > > > > For example if the SAN supports it why would you allocate 5x2tb LUNs instead > of a single 10tb thin LUN? > > ________________________________ > > MIRA Ltd > > > > Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England > > Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 > > VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96 > > > > The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of > the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete > it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, > forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is > prohibited. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
