Re: IBM FastT vs. EMC Clarion
From: Barnhart, Troy (TBarnhart_at_RCRH.ORG)
Date: 03/24/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:16:55 -0700 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
FastT w/ McData fabric...
We currently have 2 - FastT700's and 1 - FastT900.
(We're budgeted for another 2-3 DS4500's and the SAN Virtualization Layer this coming year...)
We have AIX (2x), Win2k (+50), VMWare (2x), BladeCenters (2x), and Redhat (12x) servers on the SAN.
The fibrechannel on IBM is 2GB throughout - from san-drives to the HBA.
FastT Storage Manager & McData Manager are relatively good-n-easy products.
Our biggest challenges were with the qlogic-hba drivers on redhat's ibm-specific summit kernel.
We demo'd EMC, IBM, Hitachi, HP... IBM was a clear choice above the others for our environment.
We are moving to a McData Director from our seven switches this year.
We went from 800Gb of JBOD to over 50 Terabytes on the SAN in just over 2 years...
We also migrated our backups from Arcserve to Tivoli Storage Manager.
The performance and other factors improved in many aspects...
(Many multiples of space in a fraction of the time...)
We recently implemented our first 1 TB windows disk - used for our
archive pool in TSM. Amazing performance.
Our Oracle-DBA was a HUGE skeptic of SAN's; an old-school many-small-disk person.
He's been converted...
Regards,
Troy
Troy Barnhart, Sr. Systems Programmer,
tbarnhart@rcrh.org
Rapid City Regional Hospital,
Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701
ph: 605-719-8068 / fax: 605-719-4206
-----Original Message-----
From: glh@DAIRYNET.COM [mailto:glh@DAIRYNET.COM]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:31 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
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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