Re: Disk Storage

In article <71skmt$cs9$1@news.xmission.com>, sromankiw@execrisk.com (Steve Romankiw) wrote: > > Early next year, I will begin a project of evaluating disk storage > solutions. This includes solutions from Sun, EMC, and IBM to name a > few. > > My current environment consists of 3 Sun Ultra E4000's (Solaris 2.5.1) > connected to 3 Sun SSA model 1xx series. We use Veritas Volume 2.4 as > our volume manager. > > To get a discussion started, I have a few questions: > > o What storage solution are using? I varies between sites but I liked the HDS units > o How did you evaluate each vendor? Configured them all identically (OK logically identical) and ran live jobs against production sized databases > o Why did you choose one vendor over the other? Technical Reasons or > company synergy? Via SWOT analysis > o How do you provide for high-availability? e.g, what happens when > your storge unit fails. The Unit is mirrored to another unit > o Does your storage system require proprietary drives or can you use > "off-the-shelf" drives? Off the shelf ish > o Was Host-based vs. Controller-based RAID important to your > decision? Controller based, 'cos I believe it is faster > o Does your storage unit connect to UNIX, NT, or Netware? I'm only interested in Unix - when I want a toy a use a Playstation > > Thanks for your input... > > Steve Romankiw > Executive Risk Inc. > > Paul Watson # I don't suffer from WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.co.uk