Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Tim Spriggs wrote: > > >> We are in a similar situation. It turns out that buying two thumpers is >> cheaper per TB than buying more shelves for an IBM N7600. I don't know >> about power/cooling considerations yet though. >> > > It's really a completely different class of storage though, right? I don't > know offhand what an IBM N7600 is, but presumably some type of SAN device? > Which can be connected simultaneously to multiple servers for clustering? > > An x4500 looks great if you only want a bunch of storage with the > reliability/availability provided by a relatively fault-tolerant server. > But if you want to be able to withstand server failure, or continue to > provide service while having one server down for maintenance/patching, it > doesn't seem appropriate. > > >
It's an IBM re-branded NetApp which can which we are using for NFS and iSCSI. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
