On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Solaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been leading the charge in my IT department to evaluate the Sun > Fire X45x0 as a commodity storage platform, in order to leverage > capacity and cost against our current NAS solution which is backed by > EMC Fiberchannel SAN. For our corporate environments, it would seem > like a single machine would supply more than triple our current usable > capacity on our NAS, and the cost is significantly less per GB. I am > also working to prove the multi-protocol shared storage capabilities > of the Thumper significantly out perform those of our current solution > (which is notoriously bad from the end user perspective). > > The EMC solution is completely redundant with no single point of > failure. What are some good strategies for providing a Thumper > solution with no single point of failure? > > The storage folks are poo-poo'ing this concept because of the chances > for an Operating System failure... I'd like to come up with some > reasonable methods to put them in their place :) >
Unless you're taking about buying multiple thumpers and mirroring them, there are none. The motherboard is a single point of failure. --Tim
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