Re: NetApps vs EMC

[Alexander Lobodzinski <lobo@mental.com>]

() > Anybody's been running NetAps filer for a long time, could you
() > comment on their reliability ?

Ran an F230 for about 1.5 years and run an F720 for about 9
months @ roughly 5 million NFS ops/day - no trouble at all.  The
only downtimes were for installing another network interface and
disk shelf and for switching a tape drive.

() If someone logs on and then shuts down their terminal program without 
() logging out, no one else can log in until the box is rebooted.

The telnet session is mirrored on the serial console, so in said
case you could logout there.  Nearly all commands can be done via
rsh as well if you want.

() 	My problem with NetApp has always been that the management 
() interface was very minimal, and only one person can log in at a time. 
() 
() 	One of the reasons I always liked Auspex was that they had a 
() "host controller" that was a real Unix box (SunOS 4.1.x, as I 
() recall), and you could do real Unix things on them.

Funny - exactly these are the things I like on the NetApp and
dislike on the Auspex.  Looks like we are entering the personal
taste zone here...

    Ciao, Lobo