On 6/17/2011 3:19 PM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote:
> Forgot to mention earlier that we have 2 now 3 other large zpools in
> operation in our datacenter.
>
> We had originally intended to use PureDisk, we told their professional
> services that hardware he was coming out to upgrade our system to....but they
> didn't mention until after he'd been here a while that the 6140 we purchased
> for this upgrade wasn't supported for PureDisk.
>
> Instead of we two 10TB zpools on each of our T2000 NetBackup media servers.
> We recently added another media server, and it has a 12TB zpool from 6180? A
> fourth media server is planned, and I heard 100+TB zpool from Hitachi storage
> (apparently the only other time than NetApp, have we gone with non-Sun/Oracle
> storage...we took delivery of the Oracle rebadged Sun badged 9990 a week
> before they announced they were breaking up with Hitachi) is planned (this
> media server will be at a remote datacenter, to do local backups of systems
> there and off-site backups for here...also a T2000). Not sure what the fate
> of one of the 10TB zpools is. One of the media servers is also the master,
> and Symantec recently recommended that we make it master only....
>
> The zpools are carved up into<2TB chunks for netbackup. Before the upgrade
> to T2000s/6140/Sol10, we had a 3511 on an 880/Sol9...and all of the 3511 was
> carved into<1TB LUNs and formated UFS for disk staging. 3511 was junk
> though....even said in the docs to not rely on it for important data. But,
> it was rammed down our throats by former manager. She had originally asked
> me to research a whole bunch of storage vendors on an affordable solution
> (cheaper and better than the 3511)....and when I went to give what I had
> found, I was informed that she had gone ahead and bought the 3511. I also
> talked to both the storage admin and the backup admin during my research, and
> that was the first they had heard of this project....
I just learned about this today. It's a JBOD, so perfect for a big
zpool, highly dense, and should be easy to maintain. It's remarkably
similar to a DDN drawer in many ways (might be same manufacturer).
120TB raw in 4U.
http://www.raidinc.com/products/storage-solutions/ebod/4u-ebod/
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