SAN storage practical list of options

[Stephen]

actually you cna do better than 3tb in a 1u... 8x500gb 2.5 in drives
in a SuperMicro 1u or 6tb in raid 5 wiht the new 2tb drives coming.

we will have a real budget for this. and the last thing we want is an
array that has to continually rebuild.

We have an openfiler box, but it does not seem to have what we need
for Large scale SAN it is a great iSCSI or NAS server however. but i
amnot seeing the tools i need to make a growing storage pool.

Thankfully we have a real budget for the data center.

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:26 AM, James Finstrom
<jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
> Isn't that awesome 9U 1TB now 1U 3TB..
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> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
> wrote:
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>> The bottom line here is going to be cost, sounds like.
>>
>> You could go out to get EMC/Clarion, or Netappliance, yet if what you
>> really might be able to afford is going to come off of Fry's racks.  Go look
>> at what they have?   Unless you need a NAS like a Sun 2450 with fiber
>> channel multipath I/O this is going to be a simple SAN?
>>
>> What you might actually need is a NFS SAN?
>>
>> I supported 9 U Terrabyte capacity  American Micros running 3ware cards
>> that popped off disks regularly, so you want to be sure your environment is
>> controlled if you device to go plain NSF4 SAN box or get a HP RAID server
>> for instance.
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>> i personally loved the NetAppliance I managed at Teleport for mail,
>> because it was very powerful and easy to use.
>> But of course the cost is going to be prohibitive?
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>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> well i have a large project, I need to create a "growable" store of
>>> data that is redundant as it will have archival media (audio and
>>> video). both will be HD quality media. so i am looking at a large pool
>>> fo data.
>>>
>>> i can build a NAS box that will last a while, but it will hit a
>>> terminal point of capacity. and it will be a single point of access so
>>> it will create access issues.
>>>
>>> So a SAN to distribute both load redundancy and allow for a growing
>>> capacity is kind of needed.
>>>
>>> and looking at most everything out there im leery of jumping on a hype
>>> bandwagon.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On 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...
>>> >
>>> > Could you elaborate on the requirements somewhat?  How do you balance
>>> > the
>>> > goals of redundancy, performance, scalability, cost, etc?
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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