Lars,
No offense, but $30K for an entry level solution.
Don't give the Sales guys that much of a break. I don't care what year
or what company, Sales guys are box pushers.
Ralf...I feel your pain. But if you're just looking for 200 GB, you'd
do well with a couple of X2200 M2's each with 500 GB drives and mirror
each one for the fraction of the cost.
But that's just me.
Lars. Tunkrans wrote:
Ralf,
As I said before , If you are looking for a small NAS server that can
provide enterprise class redundancy when scaled up or clustered.
You have the SUN 5200 & 5300 series of NAS arrays.
http://www.sun.com/storagetek/nas/5220/
http://www.sun.com/storagetek/nas/5320/
http://www.sun.com/storagetek/nas/5320cluster/
they will even fit visually with your X4100 :-)
Salesmen have never faced the problems they face now.
They are under so much pressure to sell that they never have time
to learn anything. And nowadays products spew out of factories
in an ever increasing flow. Actually our salesman would need
to spend 100% of his time learning about all the new products
he is supposed to sell.
It is simply unfair :-)
//Lars
Ralf K. Wiegand wrote:
This is all very interesting, but I was looking for a
Sun solution. I'm currently offering remote backup
services for small to medium size business as well as
SunRay technology. I'm running out of storage on the
VMware ESX server and I would like to keep the same
hardware even if it is more expensive. Maybe some of
the Sun guys can help out here. I contacted Sun Sales
two times so far and nobody is getting back to me.
Sun's sales and marketing is just not with it. I can
not understand why nobody from Sun can get a better
marketing group, the technology is hot, but it looks
like they [Sun] can get it out there. Anyway... Any comments and help
would be great.
Ralf Wiegand
TML Technologies
--- Louis Springer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lars,
Way cool.
I did something similar with an old dell, but used
Ubuntu and created an iSCSI target rather than a NAS appliance. I wish
my old gear would have run Nevada, or I would have built the iSCSI
target with that.
Have you boosted the MTU? That could potentially
boost performance for a configuration like this. You might need to
direct connect the appliance to its own x4100 port if your switches
don't handle jumbo frames.
I used my x4100 to build a vmware machine that has
several S10 x86 clients, including a SunRay server, along with a
bunch of other images. You can check out some of this at my blog,
http:// blog.louspringer.com.
Lou
On Nov 6, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Lars. Tunkrans wrote:
Well, There is a problem with finding a small
NAS server that
does NFS. There are dozens of appliances and
devices that does
SMB/CIFS and proprietary filesharing. but
nothing under $3000
that does NFS.
In the end I built my own NFS NAS box out of a
PC.
I bought 3 320 GB SATA diskdrives and is using
Solaris 11 X86
with ZFS to do the filesharing. This is good
enough for a home
system.
This box is the smallest NAS appliance with
NFS services that
I found.
would have costed me $3000 with 4 x 500 GB
disks this spring.
http://www.infrant.com/products/products_details.php?name=ReadyNAS%
20NVPlus
As you probably are looking for sharing out home
directories
you need something that is very highly available
.
In fackt you have a higher uptime requirement on
the home
directory server
than you have on an individual sunray server.
Therfore, in a comercial environment you need to
setup
a NAS cluster for home directories to achive a
good SLA on the
sunray farm.
SUN sells the 5300 NAS server in a cluster
setup. It will give you
rather more than 200GB, but if you use a single
server with a
JBOD attached to it , you may not have the
redundancy you need.
regards
//Lars
Ralf K. Wiegand wrote:
I'm looking for network attached storage to share
between several X4100 running sunray on VMware
Server.
Can somebody provide me with some recommendation
and
possible hardware configuration choices?
I'm looking for 200GB to begin with.
Thanks for your help
Ralf Wiegand
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