Re: IBM FastT vs. EMC Clarion

From: Wheelock, Michael D (Michael.Wheelock_at_INTEGRIS-HEALTH.COM)
Date: 03/24/05

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    Date:         Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:00:27 -0600
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Hi,

    We have used the FastT products in several locations (we have 3 DS4400's
    now). The platforms include AIX and Windows 2000/2003. We use IBM
    Wintel servers too, so the installation of HBA drivers, etc there is
    utterly painless. I have been less than impressed at times with the way
    that AIX handles the failover aspects of the SAN (specifically using SAN
    based rootvg volumes), but I think that most of my gripes apply to any
    product that uses multi-path failover.

    One of the major uses for our FastT's has been TSM (Tivoli Storage
    Manager). We regularly pump 1.5TB daily through its disk pools. I have
    seen sustain transfers of 85MB/s from the system (this was limited by
    our Gigabit nic through a gigaman connection, so ymmv).

    I have not used the EMC products. Their software for management seems
    to be pretty good. I seriously doubt that you would have show stopping
    problems with either.

    Michael Wheelock
    Database Administrator
    Integris Health

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    Subject: IBM FastT vs. EMC Clarion

    We are in the process of selecting our first SAN for our environment -
    approximately 10 AIX servers and 3 Windows servers. We've narrowed our
    choices down to either an IBM DS4300 Turbo (old FastT) or the EMC
    CLARiion
    CX500. For those of you who may have worked with either (or both) of
    these
    products, what is your overall opinion of the product? Would you buy
    that
    product again? Any positive or negative comments would be greatly
    appreciated. Thanks.
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