I've some experience with BlueArc in the past (late '06 I think it was, and even though I've left I know they're still using it). The unit was more than a little dodgy to start with resulting in a number of gray hairs as we had a few firmware problems over the first year, e.g. it not alerting us about failed disks, reporting the wrong disks failed and a few performance problems, but by the end of that it was performing very well indeed, far beyond our original expectations. There were a number of things we thought NetApp does it better but then NetApp also happens to do it for significantly more money.
Paul On 07/02/2010 11:31 AM, Tom Perrine wrote: > Dan Parsons wrote: > > >> So, any companies / products you can recommend along those lines, I'd >> love to hear about. Thanks! >> > There seem to be a few companies aimed directly at NetApp, just as Juniper > seemd to originally be aimed at Cisco :-) > > We've had good luck with BlueArc for the past 4 years, as we continue to use > NetApp (going on 11 years). BlueArc > started in the very high-end space (bigger and $$$$) above where NetApp could > go with the original 6070s, but I've been > told that they have some lower end products now. > > BlueArc is typically CLI compatible with NetApp, too :-) > > Again, they are likely too expensive, but might have started shipping some > smaller products. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
