RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

[Nick Harring]

Title: RE: [vchkpw] SATA NAS for vpop cluster

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 17:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> I am looking around for a suitable (ie, reasonably priced and
> >> performance)
> >> NAS unit in order to convert a bunch of standalone servers
> >> into a cluster.
> >> SATA RAID units seem to be what I am looking for.
> >>
> >> I would appreciate those out there who have experience using
> >> NAS boxes for
> >> this purpose to share your wisdom.
> >>
> >> What are you using ?
> >> How has it been working for you ?
> >> Any performance issues during busy times etc ?
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot.
> >> Lu
> >>
>
> > From: Clayton Weise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > We use netapps (www.netapp.com) and it works great.  One of
> > the big things that made me move towards the netapp in place
> > of many of the other NAS units out there was the fact that it
> > runs a nix based OS.  Most of the ones, say..
> > Dell for example just run a stripped down version of windows
> > with file sharing for unix.  It doesn't give you the ability
> > to make any tweaks to the nfs server.  We've been using the
> > netapps for about 6 months now and it's been awesome.  A
> > client that hosts in our datacenter turned us on to the
> > netapps nas units.  He's been using them for I think about 2
> > years now and swears by them.
> >
>
> That's great to hear.
> Can you let me know the specific model you are using ?
> How many domains are you currently handling with the above unit ?
> Also, do you have any redundancy capability in case that box goes down
> ?
>
> Thanks again Clayton
> Lu
>
I'm running a clustered pair of F820s in production, however those are
end of lifed models if I'm not mistaken. With NetApps be prepared to
spend serious cash, they are not cheap. When I was pricing mine out, a
year or so ago, there were no ata based devices, and they said they had
no intent to build such units. Procomm has ATA/SATA based devices, and
an excellent rep (disclaimer being that a relative of mine used to sell
their devices). NetApps are some of the priciest devices around, however
their reliability, performance and support are pretty much unmatched.
I've had zero hiccups since deploying in production, and the performance
absolutely clobbers the previous Solaris/SCSI based solution I was
using.
I've got about a dozen domains, 85K mailboxes and about 600K
messages/day that's only putting about 20% load on my netapps.
Hope that Helps,
Nick Harring
Webley Systems