Re: Off-Topic: Question regarding IBM vs. EMC storage

2004-09-23 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:29:11PM -0400, Thach, Kevin G wrote: I know there are numerous people on this forum using EMC storage, and I'd appreciate it if a few of you wouldn't mind giving me your opinion For disk storage, we have an EMC Symmetrix in an Open Systems-environment. The SAN

Re: Off-Topic: Question regarding IBM vs. EMC storage

2004-09-23 Thread Mike
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Jurjen Oskam wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:29:11PM -0400, Thach, Kevin G wrote: I know there are numerous people on this forum using EMC storage, and I'd appreciate it if a few of you wouldn't mind giving me your opinion For disk storage, we have an EMC Symmetrix

Re: Off-Topic: Question regarding IBM vs. EMC storage

2004-09-23 Thread Ben Bullock
-Topic: Question regarding IBM vs. EMC storage On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Jurjen Oskam wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:29:11PM -0400, Thach, Kevin G wrote: I know there are numerous people on this forum using EMC storage, and I'd appreciate it if a few of you wouldn't mind giving me your opinion

Re: Off-Topic: Question regarding IBM vs. EMC storage

2004-09-23 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 07:33:23AM -0500, Mike wrote: For tape storage, we have an IBM 3584 library, fibre-connected but not via the SAN: each drive has its own HBA in the AIX box. This is the same tape configuration we're using. Have you thought about moving the tape fiber to SAN and

Off-Topic: Question regarding IBM vs. EMC storage

2004-09-22 Thread Thach, Kevin G
My organization currently has three IBM ESS's in place with about 37TB of disk total. For storage and midrange servers, we are almost exclusively an IBM shop. We are evaluating purchasing a large amount of EMC storage, and from everything I can tell, and the customer references we have talked

Re: Off-Topic: Question regarding IBM vs. EMC storage

2004-09-22 Thread John Benik
regarding IBM vs. EMC storage My organization currently has three IBM ESS's in place with about 37TB of disk total. For storage and midrange servers, we are almost exclusively an IBM shop. We are evaluating purchasing a large amount of EMC storage, and from everything I can tell