Good luck, I'll be interested to hear about your experience with FAST.
We have migrated most of our VMs to EQL now, leaving EMC for the 'heavy lifting' - DBs mostly. Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com From: Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: EMC CX4 and FAST 2.0 Thanks for the feedback Jim. That feature of the EQL is one of the reasons we're giving them serious thought for our VMWare environment. It sounds like the latest version of FAST has some of the same capabilities. The previous versions required entire LUNs to be moved between storage tiers. I guess now it will move 1GB chunks at the block level, automagically of course. I'll post back if we end up getting to play with the features. - Sean On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Jim Holmgren <[email protected]> wrote: We aren't using FAST on any of our CXs, but we'll soon be implementing the equivalent on some of our Equallogic gear. We have a couple of their new 'hybrid' shelves on order (some SSD and some spindle) and we'll be using it for that. Equallogic does analyze I/O and "automagically" move the data to the 'sweet spots'. We did just implement a shelf of EFDs on one of our CX4's. We split it between our 2 biggest SQL servers. We've seen some pretty significant performance gains, but yeah - they were not cheap for sure. Jim ________________________________ From: Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue 10/5/2010 6:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EMC CX4 and FAST 2.0 Anyone out there with a CX4 using FAST 2.0? I'm looking for some real world feedback on how it functions. I remember reading a little bit into FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) when EMC first announced it and from what I read, it didn't seem as "automated" as the acronym made it sound. It seemed like you had to manually review NaviAnalyzer results and manually move data based on the recommendation from the performance analysis. Anyway, we're looking into EMC's EFDs for our CX4 but I certainly can't justify the expense if the drives are going to be implemented on a per system basis, or requires that I manually identify hot spots and move LUNs accordingly. If the new version will actually move blocks of data based on IO rates I'd be willing to give it more serious thought. 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