John, Are you primarily looking at providing additional storage to existing servers or are you looking to consolidate your file servers and serve up storage to clients directly from a storage unit? If the latter, it sounds like you want a solution capable serving up CIFS.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:56 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>wrote: > Thanks. That sort of talk made me suspicious that he was blowing smoke, > but it seems like a good product, nonetheless, and if it comes in cheaper > than the “big boys” I may go with that, especially since ASB recommends ‘em. > J > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, October 09, 2009 11:52 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: NAS/SAN > > > > That sounds like nonsense to me. > > > > Have you looked into Dell/EMCs CX4-120? Its the entry level CX unit that > provides both fiber channel and iscsi connectivity via "UltraFlex I/O > Modules". It supports 4GB/s and 8GB/s Fiber Channel and 1 GB/s and 10GB/s > iSCSI. > > > > -Sean > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:39 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> > wrote: > > Ok, I just got off the phone with a StoneFly sales engineer…He had some > interesting things to say about EMC/Dell/Equallogic/NetApp and LSI. I need > some fact-checking from people who know more than I about this sort of > thing… he said that those are “dumb” ISCSI devices that can’t handle a lot > of connections at once and that I ought to buy their product because that > hardware can handle a lot more connections and a lot higher throughput than > the competition. > > > > Was he just blowing smoke up my rear or is that stuff true? > > > > Thanks! > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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