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RE: NetApps vs EMC
We had a NetApps box that ran for over 2 years and the only shutdown was for
racking it! We never even so much as lost a disk drive. We liked that box
so much that we got another and another, each one bigger and faster than the
previous one.
As for the minimal operating system, I find that that aspect beats Auspex
hands-down. While Auspex has it's positive points, the fact that it runs a
flavor of SunOS 4.1.x caused some real headaches for us when we wanted to
upgrade network hardware etc. The drivers just don't exist for that OS.
With NetApps, the OS is so minimal and integrated so well, you have very
little room for error. Thus, once it is configured and running, it just
RUNS and RUNS.
Just .02 from a devoted NetApps fan!
Tyler
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Lobodzinski [SMTP:lobo@mental.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 2:13 AM
> To: sage-members@usenix.org
> Subject: Re: NetApps vs EMC
>
> () > 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