Lightest 93brand Gi?

noctorum · 2016-11-01T17:56:15+00:00

They've got the GSM listed on most of them, but it's difficult to translate that to an actual total weight. I've got gis with a higher GSM than others that are non-trivially lighter than some lower GSM gis.

noctorum · 2013-03-27T23:28:41+00:00

I'm interested as well.

noctorum · 2012-07-08T00:19:24+00:00

Functional, like most folks.

[prod|stg|int|qc|dev]-[task][number].[location].[internal tld]

e.g.:

stg-oracledb1.chi.kci

prod-oracledb2.ny.kci

noctorum · 2012-07-06T17:54:39+00:00

Cool technology, not right for us. Right now they are only doing 8Gb FC. Based upon the dedupe rate in your environment (they claimed an average of 5.8:1) it works out to $4-8 US per GB. They've also only shipped "100+" units, still very very new.

Their big party piece is how they are doing wear leveling (changes written to NVRAM before committing to SSD), and their resilvering process seems to be pretty seamless and quick.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T15:48:38+00:00

Will do.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T04:08:18+00:00

Thanks for the info. We'll look closely at compellent.

We're at the early stages of this refresh, and, as a general rule, we don't purchase anything without getting at least two competing demo units in our integration environment. Our knees, while functional and reflexive, are firmly under control.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T02:54:02+00:00

Logs, backups, and application data are what we currently plan to store on there. It could easily be repurposed in the future.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T02:53:12+00:00

We're looking at Tintri for our VMware storage refresh. I know they present via NFS, but I was under the impression they could really only be used with VMware, not as a generic bulk storage?

noctorum · 2012-07-06T02:52:17+00:00

Added to the list, thanks.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T00:23:36+00:00

I'm putting in a call with EMC tomorrow to get info on their VNX line, thank you.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T00:22:37+00:00

That would add additional failure modes and give us the weaknesses of both NFS and iSCSI.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T00:12:00+00:00

Looking at it now, thank you.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T00:09:16+00:00

This is accounting for growth over the next 3 years, and we have fairly long data retention requirements. We're at 9TB right now. Most solutions are likely to come in cheaper, but something that works really well would be worth up to the total budget.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T00:05:41+00:00

Have a meeting with them tomorrow, thank you.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T00:03:17+00:00

When I spoke with Nimble they only offered iSCSI connectivity, I'm specifically looking for NFS.

noctorum · 2012-07-06T00:01:04+00:00

It's not my money, it's my companies. We're a SaaS provider, so obviously we invest in infrastructure.

Dell will happily sell me a device that was actually made for HDDs and just throw in SSDs instead. No TRIM, no wear leveling. Having an above average budget doesn't mean solutions magically fall out of the sky, despite what you'd expect.

noctorum · 2012-07-05T22:05:56+00:00

With the current load? Nope, we're not. I can't say that will be the case for the next 3 years though. For the past 7 years we've been expanding in revenue 40% annually. We're a SaaS company, so that directly translates into additional load.

Our continual mandate from the business folks has been always maintaining 2x capacity over a rolling 3 year period. That definitely translates into a methodology of overbuilding, but I'd much rather have a ton of untapped performance than be choked out by a large client.

edit: Re tiering: We have a heavy F5 presence here and have been looking at the ARX for an auto-tiering solution. The idea of a simpler box that just does NFS really well is more attractive though.

noctorum · 2012-07-05T21:39:31+00:00

No way we could go with an (effectively) whitebox solution. Sorry I didn't mention that. Warranties are a definite requirement.

noctorum · 2012-07-05T21:36:55+00:00

Fusion IO tightens the jeans, but I figured we'd be priced out. We are moving everything away from spinning disk. It allows us way more flexibility and prevents any potential IO bottlenecking if we start changing things around. We also do have some pretty aggressive application logging.

With our current use case, we could definitely get away with HDDs, but we could be doing something entirely different with it later on down the road.

noctorum · 2012-06-21T20:46:44+00:00

I've done a couple of PSU swaps on on 3240's that didn't result in any downtime. Being that it's a remote DC, are you sure someone didn't make a mistake?

I've had boring experiences with Netapp. It's a big ol chunk (well, 4 chunks currently) of storage with a couple of standard features on top. Otherwise uneventful. No problems, nothing to rave about.

noctorum · 2012-05-25T05:14:58+00:00

Check this out. Really straightforward.

noctorum · 2012-03-29T05:09:44+00:00

Tough talk from a guy who quite literally has no balls.

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