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 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 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 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 > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >