pcstru Posted May 19, 2011 Posted May 19, 2011 I still can't quite figure out why everyone is so obsessed with having their disk storage loosly coupled to their VM instances as if you're all running Amazon-scale datacentres, but if you're going to buy a SAN then the QNAP devices seem to be good value for money. Ours seems to be coping with being both an iSCISI target for Xen Server VMs and an SMB file server - you can at least save one lot of network traffic by having SMB traffic go straight to your storage server, rather than to a VM acting as a file server and from there to the storage server over iSCISI. Exactly. The first question is not what performance does x,y or z's SAN offer but what performance do we actually need. Schools seem to be spending a fortune on expensive devices they don't actually need.
Hebdenlad Posted May 20, 2011 Posted May 20, 2011 Hi there. I know a fair bit about the S7xxx range from Oracle. give me a call to chat about VMs and iSCSI / NFS on our entry level storage devices...
Hebdenlad Posted May 20, 2011 Posted May 20, 2011 Looking at the CoRAID website they only have a very small presence in the UK. I'd personally be worried about ongoing support and what happens if they decide the UK market isn't for them. You'd be left holding a SAN with nowhere to go....
FatBoy Posted May 23, 2011 Author Posted May 23, 2011 I have been reading up on CoRAID and there ATA over Ethernet and its quite impressive, if anyone else is interested have a read of this SNS Europe February 2011 start on page 14-15, its a good read. Also Bruce Almighty drives Coraid AoE plan after $10m investment ? The Register
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