Sun's N8xxx is a repackaged NetraNFS and a great advertisement for NetApp nothing else: please see att web side: http://www.sun.com/storage/n8200/specs.html
Hardware/Software Specifications N8200: ======================================== Operating environment Solaris(tm) Operating Environment 7 Standard software Integrated RAID Manager with hot-spare support; Telnet, NIS, NIS+, DNS, SNMP, Web browser preconfigured Installation time 10 minutes or less Network protocol support NFS v2/v3 over UDP or TCP, CIFS ECC memory 2048 MB Nonvolatile memory 64 MB (per storage controller) PCI expansion capacity Two Slots Optional PCI connectivity Single 10/100 Base-T Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet Disk drives 18-GB UltraSCSI RAID storage capacity Minimum 18-GB SCSI drives 12 (10,000 rpm) Maximum 18-GB SCSI drives 48 (10,000 rpm) Storage capacity 800 GB File systems One per Sun StorEdge N8200 NAS array RAID level Hardware RAID 5 Maximum RAID group size 11 data/1 parity
Erhard
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Sterling Woodcock [mailto:sirbruce@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Montag, 5. Juni 2000 06:24 To: Brian Tao; Wilcox, Howie Cc: Alex.Ishankov@BMO.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: NAS solutions from Sun?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Tao" taob@risc.org To: howie.wilcox@netapp.com Cc: Alex.Ishankov@BMO.com; toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 6:51 PM Subject: RE: NAS solutions from Sun?
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 howie.wilcox@netapp.com wrote:
There seems to be not very much that would be considered "filer" or "appliance" in SUN's new N8200. A closer loo reveals that SUN's new "filer" is apparently a SUN server and A1000 storage array bundled into one marketing code.
So basically another kick at the Netra NFS bucket (Ultra-1 +integrated multipack)? I see they mention Network Appliance specifically too... about time they noticed. ;-)
Don't forget Netra NFS was supposed to "eat Netapp's lunch", or so they said.
Bruce