[Chester LUG] Coraid.

[Stuart Burns]

David,

I have just spoken to one of our SAN engineers and he is very helpful and
has offered to help you create your specs, requirements
and configs and talk through providers at right price range, if your
interested. Will be next week though

Let me know

Stu
On 10 Mar 2011 22:03, "David Holden" <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
> 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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