[HPADM] Summary: EMC Experience

From: Justin Willoughby (jwilloug_at_mhc.net)
Date: 04/14/04

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    I got a number of pretty good responses to this question and others on
    this subject.
     
    Most everyone thought that EMC makes very good storage servers. As was
    mentioned by one or two people this subject is sort of a "religious war"
    type of question. It was indicated that OPS runs fine on the Symmetrix
    storage servers.
     
    At least one person mentioned that EMC's software is buggy and not to
    use the latest release of any of there software if possible.
     
    Sounds like over all if we go with EMC we should be just fine and some
    suggested that the EMC Symmetrix is much better then the IBM Shark or
    other similar storage servers.
     
    The one I am still a bit concerned about is that there are very few
    published performance tests on EMC storage servers (as EMC is very
    restrictive in this area). Anyone know why EMC does not participate in
    the same benchmarking as other storage server vendors?

     
    - Justin
     
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     Justin Willoughby
     Computer Operations
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    Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:00:13 -0500
    To: <hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl>
    
    

     
    I hope this is not too much off topic.
     
    We have AIX and HPUX servers. We have been using a IBM ESS Shark but
    are now also looking at EMC, specifically the DMX 800. Can anyone that
    uses the DMX 800 share their experience with this storage server? The
    vendor did a live web demo of the management software for their DMX
    servers and it looks pretty impressive. What I am most interested in is
    any one that has had problems with their EMC storage service or any
    performance issues, or praise.
     
    Thanks,
     
    - Justin
     
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     Justin Willoughby
     Computer Operations
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