what you do not understand is that a proper SAN is NOT an complex setup, it is in many cases a simpler one because you have TWO controllers, disks with DUAL channel and a proper RAID level in ONE device
to built all this redundancy at your own is a much complexer software-setup and you can be pretty sure taht as long you are not dealing night and day with storage/Failover-setups the people designing a SAN have much more expierience what the are doing Am 09.07.2012 12:01, schrieb Noel Butler: > Seem some people have never heard of "keep it simple, stupid" or > "less is more" ... sounds like a few people here are falsely propping > up their worth to their employers, making unnecessary BS to justify > their own existence. > > My experience of over 20 years of this industry easily shows that those > who try to make complex networks _always_ have far higher fail rates > than those that keep it simple, nearly never have any problems, and when > they do its because the powers failed, the gennies didnt kick in and > UPS's died before engineers got the gennies going. I've also seen most > networks that use SAN's have a far more problems than those using NAS's > - providing you use decent NAS gear like EMC or Netapp :) Don't evne > think about using a general server as a NAS. > > > On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:46 +0100, J E Lyon wrote: > >> On 9 Jul 2012, at 10:41, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >>> Many people just want to be proud, or want to make things expensive so >>> their clients are proud. but not always it's like that. >> >> You go on a bit about "pride in complexity" . . What you fail to understand >> is that many highly intelligent, experienced, very able engineers build >> systems that are as complex and as large as they _need to be_ and just >> because you don't deal with such large systems doesn't make everyone else >> wrong. (Okay, I know, some people are proud, and some people do make bad >> decisions about large complex systems -- but you make the mistake of >> assuming everyone does.) >> >> Just my 0.02 -- hope it helps. >> > > > -- Reindl Harald the lounge interactive design GmbH A-1060 Vienna, Hofmühlgasse 17 CTO / CISO / Software-Development p: +43 (1) 595 3999 33, m: +43 (676) 40 221 40 icq: 154546673, http://www.thelounge.net/ http://www.thelounge.net/signature.asc.what.htm
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