On 10/18/10 3:56 PM, Doran L. Barton wrote: > Not long ago, Derek Carter (aka goozbach) proclaimed... >> You need a Coraid storage device. It fits everything but #4 and still >> matches the "Please don't suggest NetApp or EMC - way way too expensive" >> criteria as well. >> >> Take a look at this: >> http://www.coraid.com/products/sr821_8_disk_etherdrive_storage_appliance >> >> seriously, these boxes are built for this purpose. > > I completely and wholeheartedly concur with Derek here. CORAID's AoE stuff > rocks. It's not the easiest thing to set up, but once it's set up, it just > work and works and works. >
"Not the easiest thing to set up"? Coraid's storage is *VASTLY* easier to setup than a comparable EMC or Isilon or the like. As a matter of fact, we recently had a contest at our booth at VMworld to see who could setup a san from unconfigured to storing files on a filesystem. The winner took a grand total of 6 seconds. Yes *SIX* seconds. The only hard part seems to be understanding that this is a *SAN* technology, so it does best on it's own physical Ethernet segment. </fanboi> -- Derek Carter aka goozbach /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
