[TriLUG] [OT] iSCSI SAN recomendations

[Mike Seda]

Chris,
Yes. The NetApp FAS 3020 is a good product, but you may want to consider the
FAS 2050, which is so new that it hasn't made it on the NetApp website yet.
Although, it *is* purchasable.

The 2050 only scales up to 104 drives versus the 3020's 168 drives, but that
may still work for you.

Also, the 2050 supports SATA-II, FC, *and* SAS drives, whereas the 3020 only
supports SATA-II and FC drives. Just something to think about.

I actually just purchased a Sun ST 6140 (
http://www.sun.com/storagetek/disk_systems/midrange/6140), which I will
attach to one of my SAN switches. Then, I will toss some LUNs from it to my
Dell PE 2850 fileserver running nfsd, smbd, and iscsid. I will also give
some additional LUNs from it to my Oracle database and Bacula backup servers
via FC (since they already have FC HBAs).

This solution was much cheaper than the FAS 2050.

Cheers,
Mike


On 8/15/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
>
> You hit it on the head! Their volume resizing options amongst other
> things won me over. When you get into other things like replicating to a
> different geographical area ....NetApp makes itself known!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of David Brain
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:54 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] [OT] iSCSI SAN recomendations
>
> Hi,
>
> On 8/15/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
> > OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> > > Coming from someone who's implemented both EMC (CX300 / CX700), and
> > > NetApp (FAS270c / FAS3020), I'd have to say you'd be better off
> > > going with NetApp for a few reasons:
> >
> > I completely agree with this, having been in both EMC and Netapp shops
>
> > in the past.  It works, it works very well, is easy to learn and easy
> > to integrate into your shop, and comes at a fair price.
> > --
>
> Yes, we went with NetApp too - currently have a 3020 with ~4TB attached.
> We did some fairly extensive research into both NetApp and EMC, and from
> what I could see NetApp looked to have a the far simpler setup and
> interface.  However it did appear that the EMC box allowed a lot more
> very low level config options - which might be important if you have
> 'special' needs.  However we really didn't need that, and in some
> respects the NetApp was considerably more flexible (for example the out
> of the box ISCSI support and some of the volume resizing options).
>
> Also my experience with their  support has on the whole been very good.
>
> David.
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