On Jun 14, 2011, at 4:44 PM, John Stoffel wrote: > This has made me look quiet closely at Isilon's (now EMC) product. It > looks really good, but obviously it's not perfect. But having just a > single volume image that you can grow on demand by just tossing new > hardware into the mix and the underlying OS moves the data around for > you... tempting. > > And the fact that you can mix and match their SATA and faster storage > arrays to make a nice layered setup. But!! I haven't a clue how well > their NDMP support for backups is.
Just an FYI, if you're looking at the Isilon product, you should also look at the HP/LeftHand product as they are very similar offerings. The main difference being that LeftHand only has SAN/Block storage, and Isilon has the flexibility of LeftHand's scalable storage model with NetApp's "I'll give you an iSCSI LUN by carving off a big hunk of this disk and allocating a ginormous file to you" model. I recognize that this thread is leaning more towards NAS than SAN, but there's ways to achieve that with the LeftHand solution (HP's X9300 gateways). I say this all only because I just priced out the costs for LeftHand vs. Isilon, and the former was WAY cheaper than the latter, even if I were to add in the cost for a HA pair of X9300s to get stateful HA NAS functionality to that iSCSI backend). D _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
