[Chester LUG] Coraid.

[David Holden]

Hi Stu,

 This sound good. Can you send me his number? Still like to get your
views next Wednesday though.

 Cheers,

 Dave.


On 11/03/11 09:28, Stuart Burns wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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> <mailto:dh at iucr.org <mailto:dh at iucr.org>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyone have any experience of coraid SANs - pluses / minuses?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave.
>>>
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