As pointed out by others, It Depends (tm)...
If your workload is low I/O, it's probably OK. If your workload is sequential in nature with high I/O, it's probably OK. If your workload is random in nature with high I/O, it's probably not OK.
We utilize it for both archive and production data sets, and for some extremely critical data (compliance/customer data) with good results. That said, it's all what I would call low I/O.
I'd definitely not use it for Exchange, but maybe for a SQL server that's only decision support\data warehousing it might be OK.
HTH,
Glenn
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of René Bormann Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:04 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Are DS14MK2 AT-FC Shelfs usable in iSCSI / CIFS / NFS Environments?
Hello Toasters,
we got an offer of DS14MK2 AT-FC Shelfs and now asking ourselfs if these are just for backupsystems like R200 or also for production with FAS920c.
Can anybody throw us some pro / cons?
Thanks,
Rene