[Chester LUG] Coraid.

[David Holden]

Hi Stuart,

 Thanks for the info - although I think your talking way over our "pay
grade" if you will :)

Yeh I'll try and make Wednesday.

 Cheers,


 Dave.


On 10/03/11 21:29, Stuart Burns wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a few words from me. TBH Never heard of the
> 
> The major thing with buying SAN is that you are putting all your eggs in
> one basket. You want dual everything as a minimum ie, controller, psu, NIC.
> 
> The support is also super important. Suppose you lost your array, would
> this company give you a 4 hr on site response ? You pay for the service.
> This is where HP/Hitachi/Dell/EMC win. What about software support for it?
> 
> You also need to look at your storage requirements. Those boxes Coraid
> do don't seem to allow storage tiers. Ie you get fast 10/15K SAS drives
> for your DBs and then slow big n cheap SATA for file access. This isn't
> essential, but it allows you cost/speed flexibility in your storage
> design. Will you ever want LUN replication (DR scenario) or dedupe ?
> 
> Also, have you looked at your data growth projections. If you are
> writing it down over 3 or 5 years, it needs to last that long.  Can you
> add additional storage trays ? If you want I can put you in touch with
> people who can get you very very keen pricing on HP or HDS (HDS are a
> bit pricey even though they are awesome bits of kit)
> 
> We can discuss on Wednesday, if your going.
> 
> Stu
> 
> On 10 March 2011 15:20, David Holden <dh at iucr.org <mailto:dh at iucr.org>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Anyone have any experience of coraid SANs - pluses / minuses?
> 
> 
>      Dave.
> 
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