Re: MetaStor Network Attached opinions?

[LuftHans <LuftHans@asu.edu>]

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:

> paul.joslin@weirdness.com (Paul R. Joslin) writes:
> 
> > the amount of cache they support.  You hear claims of 1 TB or 500
> > GB, then look at the fine print and see that the box maxes out at
> > 256 MB of cache.  If cache is tight, you have to look at spindles
> 
> The only filers netapp makes that will support > 500GB (without
> clustering) are the 740 and 760, which take 512M and 1Gb read
> cache respectively.  They both take 32M write cache (nvram).
> 
> > back up a 500 GB lump of data.  NetApp recommends NFS mounting it
> > and doing it over the net.  That works, if you have a backup
> 
> But, they do support ndmp, if your backup software does.  (Which
> legato still doesn't, *grumble*)

That's what we're doing with aXXion and a tape robot. Tests have been good so
far, but we haven't actually deployed it yet. NetApp has been very responsive.
Of course, we're still buying :). We've already added capacity and cache twice
as funds came available, this before we even make the unit available.

> > problems with Auspex and the newer HP & Sun have been
> 
> Auspex is history unless they start dropping their prices *a
> lot*.  A netapp'll outperform 'em and cost a fraction the price.

This isn't my gig, but those here who've supported auspex wouldn't even
consider them this time around. We have an older (couple of years) Auspex that
still has probs dropping good drives off the air that it's had since day one
:(.

ciao,

der.hans

> Darrell

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