Yeah. We're definitely looking at a 3040 or 3140 depending on pricing. I'm really hoping for the 3140 for the extra processing power.
He might be looking at SnapDrive for Windows for you. I think that might do what you're looking for. My problem I'm having right now is that I want to run Linux on my main system but I still need a Windows OS. I can't find a VIM client that runs on linux. Although this beauty is coming out, hopefully soon... http://www.bluebearllc.net/kodiak/ So I'd at least have a Hypervisor for my VMs. Jason -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation We are doing exactly that with a pair of S500's. My only advice on those is stay away, go with the full Netapp FAS line or evaluate against an EQ box. The S500's just don't really do it for me, although most of the features are there. The performance is not quite what we were sold it to be, but are currently in process of looking at upgrading them to their big brothers and putting in some Riverbed to accelerate the replication between the two sites with a lower bandwidth utilization. My only beef is our inability to map to the secondary storage on our remote S500 to pull files directly from it without having to break the snapmirror. An engineer is supposed to be calling me to discuss an option on that though. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Correct. NetApp uses WAFL, Write Anywhere File Layout, for their file system. What this allows them to do is quickly commit a write to disk. Fragmentation isn't an issue, according to their engineers. What that also allows them to do is create EXTREMELY quick snapshots of the volumes/aggregates. Because all they do is progress the volume writes to the nth value for that block. What that does also is have 0 cost snapshots. The only time it starts to cost you space is when you start changing blocks. And they only start costing blocks and not whole file sizes. I'm in love with my NetApp. We're having some growing pains with backups and because of that our dual SDLT320 isn't hanging with the jobs it is being asked to do on a daily basis. We were quoted over 100k for a new solution that includes dual LTO4 library with ndmp dumps from the servers. That's too much, so we're looking to bundle this with our DR solution for budgetary purposes. What NetApp allows us to do is put a filer at a remote site and snap mirror to it. That's a complete copy of the data or volume or aggregate, depending on how it's configured, on a schedule or real time. Another part of this is SnapVault where we can vault backups to an offsite filer and as long as we have the storage to handle it, we can keep quick and easily accessible backups for months offsite. Then we can dump to tape monthly or whenever we want. YMMV Jason -----Original Message----- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Ok, let me ask a clarifying question ... Isn't NetApp a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and NOT a SAN. Their NetApp filer boxen run a proprietary file system, not the same as a SAN connected box running the native file system (NTFS) -----Original Message----- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Just looking for some feedback. Is/has anyone used NetApp as their backend in a VMWare solution? 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