Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Matt Lawrence wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Richard Chycoski wrote: >> >> >> >>> Ah - then a 'better' NFS HA implementation might be a possible answer. Next >>> - >>> do you have the budget/learning-curve-bandwidth to look at something like >>> NetApp? >>> >>> >> I have suggested a NetApp. I am waiting to see what management says. It >> would be my first choice. >> > > > If you are looking that route, you should also at least take a look at > the Sun 7000 series storage servers. It is said that they beat NetApp on > price, on performance, on flexibility, and on ease of implementation. Of > course, you have to evaluate those claims and make the decision for > yourself. > http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/open-storage/index.html. > > > A cautionary tale. We've had a redundant (2 primary heads with shared storage and a secondary/replication storage/head server) 7000 setup in house for a year that we bought, and we *still* haven't been able to put it in production because of a myriad of bugs..
That said, if you plan to use it as just an NFS solution, it may work reasonably well. The CIFS integration is not fully baked. _______________________________________________ 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/
