From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 11 20:44:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167B114F74 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 128Fcj-0002Zi-00; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:43:09 -0800 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:43:06 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Roger Marquis Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infortrend RAID / Extending FBSD filesystem? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Roger Marquis wrote: > > > Much as I like FreeBSD, Sun is the way to go for large disk farms. > > > > Perhaps for the server itself, but Sun storage arrays seem very > > overpriced (ie A5000 series). > > Overpriced compared to what, EMC, NetApp, Auspex? Where else can you > get a quad FC-AL attached array the size of a PC with 22 10Krpm dual > ported drives? I installed one of these on an E4500 a few months ago > with Oracle, Veritas' FastIO, near-line backups, hot-swap and redundant > everything. The 200MB/s throughput is also hard to beat. Well, you are comparing apples and orages here. A A5000 is an FC-AL array. NetApp and Auspex sell file server appliances, that happen to include arrays, that may or may not use FC-AL. DEC makes numerous different kinds of FC-AL arrays for instance. DPT (not made by DPT) has a nice little low profile FC-AL shelf. The DPT one is interesting, because it is same backend FC-AL shelf that NetApp uses with many of their filers. > I don't know of a better Unix solution at any price for 2+TB per > cabinet that can be separated from it's servers and mirrors by several > kilometers of fiber. Yes, but all FC-AL arrays can do that. > Not cheap to be sure but cheaper than trying to manage a bunch of > stand-alone/NFS fileservers. > -- > Roger Marquis > Roble Systems Consulting > http://www.roble.com/ Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message