According to their website, "Today StoreVault is sold only in the U.S., Canada, UK and Australia."
Willeke, Jochen wrote:
a little bit off-topic but interesting for some...
Is storevault already available in europe?? I heard that those systems are only available in the US :-/
Rgds
Jochen
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of aachleon Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:20 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: NetApp Newbie questions
Depending on just how far you will be scaling, you might also want to consider looking at a NetApp's StoreVault (http://storevault.com). They scale to 6TB of raw capacity, perform well and are very reasonably priced.
As with most companies, it depends who you talk to in the support organization. We've had rather poor results from NetApp's first line of support, but better results after escalation. I do believe they're making improvements in that area however.
Aaron
Ray Van Dolson-3 wrote:
Hello all, my company is looking at replacing our NFS home directory storage solution (currently Sun boxes strewn all over the place) with
a
centralized storage solution. We're looking at a number of options (Sun StorageTek, etc) and NetApp is one of them. We've traditionally been a Sun shop, so there is some comfort there with our relationship with them and how they do support for us, but NetApp's storage solutions would appear to be far more mature at this point.
We'll probably be needing only around 2TB of storage to begin with,
but
clearly would like the ability to expand beyond this. I've picked out the FAS270C as a potential solution for us.
Questions are as follows:
With the 270C, do we purchase a "head unit" and then buy a disk shelf and populate with disks? Or is the head unit and disk shelf one integrated unit?
In order to do the clustered failover does this just involve
purchasing
a second head unit? Or a complete second set of disks as well? Would we need to purchase additional software licensing to enable this functionality?
Any particularly compelling reason to go to a 2000-series vs the 270C given our relatively small disk needs at this point?
How have you all found Network Appliance's support to be? Do you need to purchase an additional 24x7 support contract or is this included with your appliance? Do they do on-site service?
I am a little concerned as I have placed two requests (both via a call and via web form) on Thursday of last week and as of today (Tuesday) I have yet to receive a call from a sales rep. If sales is this non-eager to get back to you -- how will support be? Perhaps if we were looking to spend a little more $$ the first time around they'd be more interested in returning my calls? :)
Thanks in advance for any advice/tips.
Ray
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