On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Mike Horwath wrote:
Care to give more detail to this?
I ask because Auspex was just at my office touting their new NS2000 at a price point that I haven't seen before.
One other thing that came to my mind is that Auspex does not support CIFS and HTTP. I believe they do FTP. I'm not interested in CIFS or HTTP myself as I use Filers with NFS exclusively, but I am glad that I have the option of turning on CIFS when my organization decides to use CIFS directly from storage appliances. You may say that the presence of the host processor on an Auspex enables one to do a variety of things like run Samba, but I assure you that Auspex is not optimized to perform any major file operations via its host processor. Also, if you think that you can rdist something quickly to an Auspex box you're in for a disappointment. Both NAC and Auspex are built with a small set of file services (NFS, etc.) in mind. If you don't go through these services in case of Auspex you suffer severe performance penalties. With NetApp this is not a problem as there is no way circumventing those services aside from their proprietary volume copy mechanism which is very robust itself.
Tom