ORIGINAL QUERY:
> Has anyone out there had experience with using "appliance" style devices
> for things such as NFS servers, etc.? More specific, is anyone using any
> of the NFS servers from NetworkAppliance (the F220 or F320)? I'm curious
> why this might be chosen over an SSA.
Thanks to all who responded:
aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Jim Faust <jbf@pixel.cirrus.com>
john heasley <heas@teleport.com>
jhall@sqi.com (John Hall)
Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>
"Peter L. Buschman" <plb@sunshine.cris.com>
"Trevor Paquette" <TrevorPaquette@aec.ca>
Dave Brady <brady@husc.harvard.edu>
terryb@cyrix.com (Terry Bohaning)
ybarrap@hpk400.hcssa.amedd.army.mil (Paul Ybarra)
Everyone has given major kudos to the NetworkAppliance NFS servers.
The consensus is that they are very fast, fairlhttp://www.netap.com/y cost
effective, easy
to maintain and configure, and almost bug free. Here's a summary from
Jim Faust:
# Positives about NetApp:
#
# Incredibly easy to setup and run
# Cheap (relatively speaking)
# OS upgrade takes less than thirty minutes
# Great response from NetApp support
# Takes about a minute to boot
# Raid 4 works great, I've had disks fail and didn't know it.
# On line snapshot
# It just runs
#
# Negatives:
#
# It doesn't run NIS, but this hasn't been a problem for me.
I went to http://www.specbench.org/osg/sfs/ and looked up the Laddis
specs on NetApp and the new Sun Netra, and they are about the same
in performance.
Network Appliances = http://www.netap.com/
Sun Microsystems Netra =
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/servers/netra.html
--Gary Smith (mage@jimmy.harvard.edu)
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