[TriLUG] [OT] iSCSI SAN recomendations

[bak]

Hey Chris,

Not to start the whole NAS vs. SAN thing, but when you say you are
interested in "serving up files, smb
shares, home directories, ftp and backups", isn't it a NAS that you're
really looking for?  Or is all of your SMB data on LUNs?

--bak

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> Chris, 
>
> Coming from someone who's implemented both EMC (CX300 / CX700), and
> NetApp (FAS270c / FAS3020), I'd have to say you'd be better off going
> with NetApp for a few reasons: 
>
> - You can do iSCSI, IP, FC
> - A tray of disks is considerably cheaper than EMC's
> - +++++++++++++++For backups you can take advantage of data
> deduplication
> - Their SNAPs take up a lot less space than EMC's
> - Their interface is fairly simple, and only launches java when
> absolutely necessary, whereas EMC's launches java from the start.
>
> Currently, we have a CX700 maxed out ...and are slowly migrating that to
> the 3020. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Chris Bullock
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:07 PM
> To: trilug trilug; tntug-discussion at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [TriLUG] [OT] iSCSI SAN recomendations
>
> We are in need for a SAN.  I am only interested in an IP SAN.  This SAN
> needs to be OS independent.  It will mainly be for serving up files, smb
> shares, home directories, ftp and backups.  We have site visits for
> NetApp and Pillar Data.  Since our IT department has 0 knowledge of SANs
> it needs to be easy to maintain.
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
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