[TriLUG] [OT] iSCSI SAN recomendations

[Lance A. Brown]

Chris Bullock said the following on 8/14/2007 9:06 PM:
> We are in need for a SAN.  I am only interested in an IP SAN.  This SAN
> needs to be OS independent.  It will mainly be for serving up files, smb
> shares, home directories, ftp and backups.  We have site visits for NetApp
> and Pillar Data.  Since our IT department has 0 knowledge of SANs it needs
> to be easy to maintain.

Hi Chris,

What are your data storage size requirements?

I'm using an ACNC JetStor 416iS[1] fronted by two Dell PowerEdge servers
to provide NFS and SMB storage to my department at Duke University.
Performance using a dedicated back-end Gigabit ethernet switch is quite
good.

--[Lance]

[1] http://acnc.com/02_01_jetstor_sata_416is.html


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