Matt Pusateri wrote:
On Tue, July 18, 2006 11:35 am, Matt Nash wrote:
Matt Pusateri wrote:
Hello Triluger's,
I've been tasked with finding our company a SAN. Currently we've
looked at EMC & Lefthandnetworks. Were leaning towards ISCSI,
corporate is a complete Windows shop, but we here in Raleigh are
almost completely Linux. So I need to find something that plays
nice.
I thought about using openfiler(iscsi-target) and rolling my own,
but
I don't think corporate will buy into it. Anyone have any
suggestions/comments? Direct experience comments appreciated, as
opposed to why don't you just use "Samba" comments :) Also if anyone
has a contact at Netapp let me know, I plan to look at them as well.
Thanks
Matt P.
The company I work for bought 3 Left Hand units in January, and so far
they have worked fine without a hitch. Even MS plays well with them!
My understanding from the installing technician is that the boxes
themselves are off-the-shelf servers running a specialized Linux OS.
The management console is multiplatform, written in Java, and is very
straightforward and easy to understand.
I haven't tried mounting one of the iSCSI targets on a Linux machine,
but that is an experiment I have planned for when I have run out of
work
to do.
Left Hand's technology is pretty interesting, and should be more
easily
scaled than EMC. Not to mention MUCH MUCH cheaper.
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Lefthand is in the running, but I saw issues I didn't like as much.
These issues may relate to all SAN's, as I'm not that SAN aware yet.
Lefthand issues:
1. All access has to be via iSCSI. I would prefer if I could NFS/SMB
mount a share if I had to in a pinch. I think NetApp does this Yes I
could mount to an iSCSI server and then mount off of there, but I like
options.
That is true, but be aware that other vendors will charge you a license
fee for the ability to export CIFS or NFS shares.
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