don't understand why you're not putting SAN and NAS data on an upgraded Netapp filer. all your existing data may be able to stay in place (no migration), and then just add what you need for SAN Luns and move the Oracle data over. they do it all in one system now.
take care,
g
-----Original Message----- From: Max [mailto:slinkywizard@integraonline.com] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 5:22 PM To: Stewart, John Cc: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: Re: Replacing our NetApp
This box is probably something that Sun put together after the Procom buyout, and I've never been impressed by most of the Procom kit.
Another NAS head option you may want to consider is a Netapp Vfiler.. that way you can have the best of both worlds.
What Model of Sun SAN are you looking at?
Regards, Max
It's time for us to upgrade our backup hardware (currently a DLT7k library), replace our Oracle DB storage hardware (now direct-attached), and our NetApp F740. We're looking hard at a Sun SAN solution.
Part of it would be to replace the NetApp with a Sun 5310 NAS Gateway:
http://www.sun.com/storage/5000/5300/5310gateway/index.xml
Our NetApps over the years have been so reliable that I am very leery to replace them with a new vendor's hardware. However, going to a SAN at all doesn't really make sense unless we include the NetApp data (about .6 TB now) in the SAN.
Does anyone have any experience with this product? It seems to have all of the basic stuff that we need (NFS, CIFS, snapshots, etc). Are there any questions in particular that we should be asking?
thanks
johnS