On Nov 23, 2009, at 14:46, Len Zaifman wrote:
Under these circumstances what advantage would a 7310 cluster over 2
X4540s backing each other up and splitting the load?
Do you want to worry about your storage system at 3 AM?
That's what all these appliances (regardless of vendor) get you for
the extra cash: the manufacturers have test things out so they Just
Work. Of course if you're comfortable with creating your own fail-over
and redundancy system (or don't have the cash for the appliance), then
there's no reason why you can't roll your own.
It's the usual trade-off: time or money.
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