SAN storage practical list of options

[Bryan O'Neal]

Have you thought about a private cloud instead? Using something similar to a
in house EBS solution you could add space on the fly, aggressively cache for
performance, and have it well distributed across your campuses.  In addition
I believe Ubuntu 9.4 Server even comes preconfigured with Eucalyptus, or
something similar, which should make it a nearly turn key solution. Just
another option to think of.

http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/


However, make sure you keep in mind that you will still want off site data
backups, which can potential double your total storage costs.



On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not likely to be doing av edits directly but we will need some fair io
>
> The server backend is likely to be a stack of xenservers. The best
> part is we will be building the datacenter from scratch
>
>
>
> On 4/19/09, Shawn Badger <badger.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You could either go with a NetApp or EMC solution and not make a bad
> choice
> > on either, but be warned that you will be spending over  $100K  to get it
> up
> > and running right. Are you going to be editing the video while it
> directly
> > stored on the SAN or is the SAN just going to be a repository? If you are
> > planning on editing directly from the SAN then be sure to get the 15K
> fibre
> > channel drives. You will also want lots of drive to distribute the disk
> I/O
> > across as many spindles as possible. The number of clients attached will
> > dictate how many drives you will need. I don't remember the ratio, but if
> > you want it I'm sure I could find it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> anyone here using a SAN and if so what are they using, maybe some of
> >> the points that sold you on it? or i fyou hate it why?
> >>
> >> it would be nic to have real world thoughts on it instead of all the
> >> markey speak...
> >>
> >> --
> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
> >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
> >>
> >> Stephen
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