Re: [CentOS] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

2007-08-23 Thread Finnur Örn Guðmundsson
We are currently using few DS4700 without any problems at all. Management application gives us no crap:) Thanks, Finnur Tomasz Napierała wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2007 17:31:37 Centos wrote: may I ask what kind of problem you had with IBM storages ? Regarding DS400 - many problem

Re: [CentOS] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

2007-08-23 Thread Tomasz Napierała
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 17:31:37 Centos wrote: > may I ask what kind of problem you had with IBM storages ? Regarding DS400 - many problem with management app freezing, forcing us to reset the array (sic!) With DS4300 hotswapping controllers broke whole array. Those are probably minor proble

RE: [CentOS] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

2007-08-22 Thread Andrew Cotter
>Agreed. > >http://www.equallogic.com/products/view.aspx?id=1791 > >10.5 TB raw capasity, and can be expanded online by adding new arrays to the group. > >Linear scalability for both capasity and performance.. with automatic load balancing. just add arrays. really nice. > >-- Pasi > I believe they

Re: [CentOS] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

2007-08-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:21:19AM -0400, Andrew Cotter wrote: > We have been looking at iSCSI SANs lately and with the names you mentioned, > I would recommend also looking at Equallogic. The PS400E I think gets you > to about the right level of storage. > Agreed. http://www.equallogic.com/p

Re: [CentOS] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

2007-08-22 Thread Centos
may I ask what kind of problem you had with IBM storages ? Tomasz Napiera?a wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:56:12 Scott Ehrlich wrote: I'm looking for RAID options for at least 10 TB to attach to a Dell PowerEdge 2950 running RHEL 5 64-bit Server. The system will act as a single sign

Re: [CentOS] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

2007-08-22 Thread Tomasz Napierała
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:56:12 Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I'm looking for RAID options for at least 10 TB to attach to a Dell > PowerEdge 2950 running RHEL 5 64-bit Server. > > The system will act as a single sign-on server for XP and Linux, thus > storing user's data from mounted home directorie

RE: [CentOS] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

2007-08-22 Thread Andrew Cotter
We have been looking at iSCSI SANs lately and with the names you mentioned, I would recommend also looking at Equallogic. The PS400E I think gets you to about the right level of storage. DAS/NAS is a different ballgame. We are looking at SAN for virtualization purposes. Andrew -Original