I'd be curious to know, a company with only 80 employees and over a PB
of
storage - what are they using for backup?
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: "Michael B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:01:06 -0400
Subject: RE: DB server RAID
I have a client company with only 80 employees that has over a PB of
storage. And growing by leaps and bounds.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
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From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DB server RAID
I don’t think 1 PB is really all that much storage for companies that
have
hundreds of thousands of employees...
Cheers
Ken
From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2008 3:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DB server RAID
PB?? Holy cow, what in the world could need that much storage?
Joe Heaton
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DB server RAID
I’m visiting our Seattle office at the moment. There are two Netapp
arrays
here (3000 and 2000 series), for a total of 87 TB of space(320
spindles). I
talked to one of the guys looking after it and he said that the perf was
just as good as the equivalent EMC Clarions, and the management was
light
years ahead.
The Netapp stuff must be decent. Of the major oil companies is doing the
largest MOSS implementation in the world at the moment backed by Netapp
storage (around 1PB of storage apparently).
Cheers
Ken
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DB server RAID
Basically I am doing a SQL 2005 Cluster Environment right now with DL
580G5’s and SAN attached storage to fit about 50-100 databases
concurrent.
4 Quad-Core processors, 16GB of RAM, EMC SAN ( DMX 1000), 2 4GB Qlogic
HBA’s. Which is my top tier.
Basically after this well be doing a stand-alone middle tier SQL server
which is a Dual Quad-Core with 8GB of RAM, and SAN disk partitioned out
accordingly. ( RAID 1+0, RAID 1, separate LUN’s etc etc)
Then Low End Testing is DL 380G5 Dual Quad-Core Processor 4GB of RAM,
local
SAS 146.8GB 10K, in a RAID 1+0 configuration with different partitions
for
each of the functions. ( This is staging)
Once I can get funding for alternative site, it will be duplicated and
using
mirroring, or stretch clustering to make site-to-site fault tolerance.
Also: If anyone is using NETAPP storage out there I’d love to hear your
thoughts and experiences on there product line, we are looking for
alternatives to our EMC SAN right now, and there offerings and
management
looks awfully attractive.
Thanks
Z
Edward E. Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA
Phone: 401-639-3505
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DB server RAID
Wow EZ, that's a lot of hardware. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be
able
to match what they are suggesting, and to be honest, I don't think our
databases need that much horsepower. So, being stuck with what I have,
6
SAS disks, on a single PERC5i controller, I'm looking at my options.
Joe Heaton
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