on 3/13/09 12:04 AM, Edward Harvey said: > Also appreciated. But at the moment, if I'm doing anything in terms of > hardware, I'm getting rid of the netapp and buying sun instead.
We're now looking at Sun's Unified Storage Servers as a lower-tier of storage service than we've ever had before. With Matching Grant pricing (50% off retail), you can get the cost/usable Tebibyte (uTiB) down to $1500 with one head and three fully populated shelves, and your cost per additional uTiB is less than $1000. If the data you're storing is compressible, then you might cut those numbers in half (depending on how good the ZFS compression algorithm is). And they can export iSCSI LUNs, and NetApp heads should be able to mount iSCSI LUNs, so if you've got a huge investment in NetApp SnapShot/SnapClone/SnapVault/SnapMirror (like we do), this is a potential way to provide compatible storage a price that is way, way lower than what NetApp charges. Of course, it most likely would not perform nearly as well, but for some situations that would be okay. I don't think we'll get away from NetApp any time soon, but more and more of the lowest-tier of storage could quite conceivably go to Sun or some other less well-known vendor. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bigsbytracks _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
