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
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