well, for serving up windows CIFS file shares, the windows storage server platform is pretty strong. when combined with hp's polyserve-based cluster services, it has client transparent failover, access to the same shares from multiple nodes at the same time, and snapshot integration with the eva8000. now if the workload is NFS, that's another matter.
since an hp windows storage server cluster scales linearly as you add nodes, the performance can be tremendous with an eva8000 on the backend. we have test results on CIFS showing linear scaling up to 1,600 Megabytes per second (not Megabits) on an 8 node Windows cluster, with all nodes mounting, reading, writing, and exporting the same file systems from all nodes concurrently, with automatic load balancing of client CIFS connections across the nodes.
carter
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Langborg Tom Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:36 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Netapp vs eva800 with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003
Hi
I need some arguments for netapp vs Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 with eva8000.
I now that the doesn't have snappvault, opensnapvault.
But how is uptime with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 and max volumes performens and so on?
The arguments that we have is the cost otherwise, we are complete happy with our fas940 and r200.
We use 90% nas and 10% san.
Regards
tom