<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">That's what I get for replying too early. We have techs that can set you up with some ideas for (obviously) an ATTO based solution. If nothing else, you can use that as a bit of a comparison point. Let me know.<br><div> </div><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;">Richard Hubbard </span><br>ATTO Technology Inc<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com><br>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 1:29:09 PM<br>Subject: Re: [nflug] Opinions on Linux and Massive Storage<br><br>I understand that you're looking for Linux opinions but I'd strongly
<br>recommend taking a look at Solaris 10 and ZFS, especially given what <br>you're looking to scale to. Solaris runs nicely on AMD/Intel hardware so <br>you won't need to be concerned with drop extra $$ on SPARC server, <br>though given what you'll be spending on SAN that probably won't matter <br>too much ;-). Samba is distributed with Solaris so it's fully supported <br>by Sun and their tech support is fantastic. Need I mention the Sun <br>invented NFS....<br><br>On the SAN side of things take a look at Hitachi's offerings. We have a <br>HDS 9570 array and this thing is bomb-proof! In the 3+ years it's been <br>in production there hasn't been one failure where it needed to be taken <br>off line, just about everything can be swapped hot. One of the <br>controller boards had a malfunction and they swapped it hot, zero <br>downtime! I have a Sun V480 parked in front of it for our file server <br>and it servers the same file systems to about 50 XP
workstations and <br>about the same number of Linux servers over NFS/CIFS.<br><br>If you're interested I can send you the contact info for my local <br>Hitachi rep and the local tech as well. The tech use to work for EMC and <br>StorageTek so he can speak to just about all the other vender's <br>products. He's told me a few whoppers about EMC that I couldn't believe.<br><br>Brad Bartram wrote:<br>> I know there are some people in this list that have experience with<br>> massive storage using linux. By massive I mean >20TB range.<br>> <br>> I'd love to hear your thoughts on building out and optimizing a system<br>> that is fast, scalable, and reliable. If you have opinions on direct<br>> attached storage as well as those of you running storage area<br>> networks.<br>> <br>> It's kind of a broad topic, but I'm about to embark on a major build<br>> out and want to avoid as many pitfalls as possible.<br>>
<br>> Thanks<br>> <br>> Brad<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nflug mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>> <a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug" target="_blank">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br><br>-- <br>Darin Perusich<br>Unix Systems Administrator<br>Cognigen Corporation<br>395 Youngs Rd.<br>Williamsville, NY 14221<br>Phone: 716-633-3463<br>Email: <a ymailto="mailto:darinper@cognigencorp.com" href="mailto:darinper@cognigencorp.com">darinper@cognigencorp.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br><a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug" target="_blank">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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