On Thu, 04 May 2006 at 11.56.32 -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:43:09AM -0500, Sidney Cammeresi wrote: > > We may need to set up a small SAN, mostly to get more I/O bandwidth. > > What are everybody's favourite HBAs and SAN boxes? > > Qlogic HBAs. Ok. > For SAN boxes, it depends on your price range and size. Small for you > may not be the same as small for me (yes, size matters!). I'm managing > about 200TB of storage on HP EVAs - most of it is not for Linux though. > The smallest EVA here is about 8TB and the largest over 40 I think (it > grows constantly!). The UofM uses mostly EMC Clarrion for their SAN and > I think they have Linux clients too. We don't have a lot of data, we mostly just need more spindles. So we'd want 12-14 disks, size isn't a big deal, like 2-4TB should be plenty. We also want a vendor who will `get' Linux and won't whine that we aren't running Redhat CoreFrobozz 45.2 on a WhizzBang 3000 machine because that's the ONLY thing they'll support at all. Not that we expect to need a lot of support, I just have a low tolerance for bullshit. -- Sidney CAMMERESI http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/