The Inverted Pyramid of Doom
Brant Wells wrote: What makes the pods such a bad choice? If you put some enterprise class SATA drives, why is that any worse than say a similarly built HP server? Are we talking motherboard & cpu...
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Brant Wells wrote: I should pat my vendor on the back, lol. We already had the network infrastructure in place for VMware, and we told them we wanted a SAN, our sales rep made sure we got two SAN...
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Brant Wells wrote: I have recently discovered DRBD, and haven't had a chance to build a test setup yet yet, but that day is comingI really like the concept and I also realize that the <> SANs...
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Of course, OpenSuse 12.3 came out Wednesday, I suspect there are no changes but haven't tested yet.
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Figures... about the time I have a few minutes to play, upgrades come out and completely change things! That's ok though. I'll compile it from source if I have to, lol.
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RLYMN You can have an offsite/DR site also act a functioning replication site with actual workloads on them from the production site with replication every 5-10 seconds using a product called Zerto,...
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Stilltrying wrote: RLYMN You can have an offsite/DR site also act a functioning replication site with actual workloads on them from the production site with replication every 5-10 seconds using a...
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I don't have all flash either so i personally would not trust the five seconds rpo either but it should be able to get pretty close within a minute or two, wouldn't you think.
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Stilltrying wrote: I don't have all flash either so i personally would not trust the five seconds rpo either but it should be able to get pretty close within a minute or two, wouldn't you think....
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Interesting. I read something similar not too long ago and dropped the idea of moving to a SAN. We had 2 servers as VM hosts running off RAID10 local storage. Instead we just invested in a third...
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Jenner wrote: Interesting. I read something similar not too long ago and dropped the idea of moving to a SAN. We had 2 servers as VM hosts running off RAID10 local storage. Instead we just invested in...
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Thanks SAM, those two sentences probably saved me an hour of listening to a VMware salesman try poorly to explain it to me. :)
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Scott Alan Miller wrote:"But losing the SAN is just as likely as losing any normal server."Patently false. Statistically, SAN's that employ 2 or more controllers have significantly lower failure rates...
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SethT wrote:Scott Alan Miller wrote:"But losing the SAN is just as likely as losing any normal server."Patently false. Statistically, SAN's that employ 2 or more controllers have significantly lower...
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SethT wrote:[ ... ]Not to mention that they allow for better space utilization. Direct Attached Storage (DAS) is very wasteful of disk space that cannot be reclaimed because it is locked to a specific...
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SethT wrote:[ ... ]I acknowledge that a SAN does not make sense in every case, but to claim that they have a failure rate comparable to a normal server is just plain wrong and misleading.If SANs are...
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SethT wrote:Patently false. Statistically, SAN's that employ 2 or more controllers have significantly lower failure rates (by at least an order of magnitude). SAN's are designed with no single point of...
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Statistically extremely rare, but possible. Not the point of my reply though, which was to refute a specific claim by SAM regarding SAN and normal server failure rates.
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