Hi all
I've recently moved jobs, and one of my new projects is being involved
in a major email overhaul for my new employer. We're currently
evaluating a whole heap of different aspects (desktop client, web
client, clients for unsupported operating systems, diary/calendar,
server software etc etc), two of which are Oracle Collaboration Suite
(OCS) and MS Exchange. Both of these require block-level access to disk
resources, whether direct attach, across a network using iSCSI, or
directly into an FC SAN.
Does anyone on the list have any stories - good, bad, or indifferent -
about running the above pieces of software using a filer backend,
generally over iSCSI *or* by breaking into the FC backend and hooking
the filer into a SAN environment? If you do, I'd be pleased to hear them
- offlist if necessary. If you're running either of them with a SAN
backend which isn't NetApp, that's just as useful a data point.
There's a lot of views being expressed in my direction at present which
appear to be without foundation, so I'm very interested in any "real
world" tales :)
Thanks
Graeme