Seconded. Leave the SAN. Take the SSDs.
@siculars http://siculars.posthaven.com Sent from my iRotaryPhone > On Oct 2, 2013, at 2:18, Jeremiah Peschka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could you do it? Sure. > > Should you do it? No. > > An advantage of Riak is that you can avoid the cost of SAN storage by getting > duplication at the machine level rather than rely on your storage vendor to > provide it. > > Running Riak on a SAN also exposes you to the SAN becoming your bottleneck; > you only have so many fiber/iSCSI ports and a fixed number of disks. The risk > of storage contention is high, too, so you can run into latency issues that > are difficult to diagnose without looking into both Riak as well as the > storage system. > > Keeping cost in mind, too, SAN storage is about 10x the cost of consumer > grade SSDs. Not to mention feature licensing and support... The cost > comparison isn't favorable. > > Please note: Even though your vendor calls it a SAN, that doesn't mean it's a > SAN. >> On Oct 1, 2013 11:08 PM, "Guy Morton" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does this make sense? >> >> -- >> Guy Morton >> Web Development Manager >> Brüel & Kjær EMS >> >> This e-mail is confidential and may be read, copied and used only by the >> intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the >> sender immediately by return e-mail. Please then delete the e-mail and do >> not disclose its contents to any other person. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
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