Ahh… I got the impression from what you’d said that it was a NAS device. My bad. J
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RE: SAN Solution The Elite is bundled with WD drives, either a consumer grade or an enterprise. We went with the enterprise (DREL1A21-WD2002FYPS-8). You should be able to pick the unit up for around $6000. For connection, I'm using a stand-alone HP Procurve Gigabit switch. Each server has 2 nics. Each server's 2nd nic card is connected to the HP Procurve and setup on different subnet than the regular network uses. It took me awhile to work out the MS ISCSI initiator stuff since I'd had no experience with it before. And I don't know if I'd characterize it as "instead of a SAN". As far as I can see, it's a SAN. ---------------------- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com _____ From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:01:18 -0500 Subject: RE: RE: SAN Solution Nifty. I’m assuming these are “Enterprise” SATA drives? How does it connect to your existing servers, and approximately how much does something like that cost? That might be something I would want to look at using instead of a SAN. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RE: SAN Solution I'm using the Drobo Elite for backups as well. It's where I store workstation images I create in Acronis. It is also the disk-to-disk storage I use for Arcserve server backups. I chose the somewhat more expensive Drobo Elite over a number of NAS alternatives for a number of reasons... * Rather than simulate MS network privaleges like most NASs do, I preferred being able to simply share the Drobo's space via my existing servers. That way I'm using MS sharing and security. * It's a SAN network which segregates storage traffic from the rest of the network. * It supplies a pool of storage that I can parcel out to any of my servers as conditions evolve. * I've got 16 TB of space. And it's all dynamically available to each partition. It took me a while to get this. You make every partition a 16 TB partition. That way, all partitions can use available storage without having to change partition sizes by destroying them and recreating them. * You can stick in any size SATA drive and it's added to the storage pool. Right now I have 8 2TB drives but when 3 and 4TB drives come out, I can swap out a 2TB drive and increase storage. Doesn't matter which slot you stick a drive in either. * Currently I'm using 2 drives for fault tolerance so if one fails, the RAID continues to operate with redundancy. ---------------------- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com _____ From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:17:07 -0500 Subject: RE: RE: SAN Solution Exactly what we use it for..:) Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 8:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: SAN Solution As I recall from the specs, it only supports one client...which would be good for backups, or a small single (physical) server environment. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jay Dale <jay.d...@3-gig.com> wrote: It works fine for just the backups, but we want something that not only can hold the backups but also a data repo for the VM's as well as the user data and image backups of laptops. Jay From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: SAN Solution And what do you think of it? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jun 7, 2010 4:51 PM, "Jay Dale" <jay.d...@3-gig.com> wrote: Ironically, we have a 2TB one of those right now holding the VM Backups…J Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com Confidentiali... From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN Solution Looks like something I would get for my home network... I like this one: http://www.drobos. <http://www.drobos./> .. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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