We looked at a SAN solution instead of a NAS solution and found a 3510 from Sun. How does this work... Will VMware server ESX see the new storage as luns? If so, how will my Solaris 10/SunRay x86 server see the added storage? Or better what do I have to do to add the new storage to the Solaris server?
Thanks Ralf --- Craig Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > === message truncated === ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
