SAN storage practical list of options

[Stephen]

Off site storage is a given once figure that out

This is quite interesting to say the least
Thanks to all the varied input

On 4/19/09, Bryan O'Neal <boneal at cornerstonehome.com> wrote:
> 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...
>> >>
>> >> --
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>> >>
>> >> Stephen
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rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen