RE: NetApp Newbie questions

From: aachleon (aachleon@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 19:02:31 EDT

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    According to their website, "Today StoreVault is sold only in the U.S.,
    Canada, UK and Australia."

    Willeke, Jochen wrote:
    >
    > a little bit off-topic but interesting for some...
    >
    > Is storevault already available in europe?? I heard that those systems
    > are only available in the US :-/
    >
    > Rgds
    >
    > Jochen
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]
    > On Behalf Of aachleon
    > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:20 AM
    > To: toasters@mathworks.com
    > Subject: Re: NetApp Newbie questions
    >
    >
    > Depending on just how far you will be scaling, you might also want to
    > consider looking at a NetApp's StoreVault (http://storevault.com). They
    > scale to 6TB of raw capacity, perform well and are very reasonably
    > priced.
    >
    > As with most companies, it depends who you talk to in the support
    > organization. We've had rather poor results from NetApp's first line of
    > support, but better results after escalation. I do believe they're
    > making
    > improvements in that area however.
    >
    > Aaron
    >
    >
    > Ray Van Dolson-3 wrote:
    >>
    >> Hello all, my company is looking at replacing our NFS home directory
    >> storage solution (currently Sun boxes strewn all over the place) with
    > a
    >> centralized storage solution. We're looking at a number of options
    >> (Sun StorageTek, etc) and NetApp is one of them. We've traditionally
    >> been a Sun shop, so there is some comfort there with our relationship
    >> with them and how they do support for us, but NetApp's storage
    >> solutions would appear to be far more mature at this point.
    >>
    >> We'll probably be needing only around 2TB of storage to begin with,
    > but
    >> clearly would like the ability to expand beyond this. I've picked out
    >> the FAS270C as a potential solution for us.
    >>
    >> Questions are as follows:
    >>
    >> With the 270C, do we purchase a "head unit" and then buy a disk shelf
    >> and populate with disks? Or is the head unit and disk shelf one
    >> integrated unit?
    >>
    >> In order to do the clustered failover does this just involve
    > purchasing
    >> a second head unit? Or a complete second set of disks as well? Would
    >> we need to purchase additional software licensing to enable this
    >> functionality?
    >>
    >> Any particularly compelling reason to go to a 2000-series vs the 270C
    >> given our relatively small disk needs at this point?
    >>
    >> How have you all found Network Appliance's support to be? Do you need
    >> to purchase an additional 24x7 support contract or is this included
    >> with your appliance? Do they do on-site service?
    >>
    >> I am a little concerned as I have placed two requests (both via a call
    >> and via web form) on Thursday of last week and as of today (Tuesday) I
    >> have yet to receive a call from a sales rep. If sales is this
    >> non-eager to get back to you -- how will support be? Perhaps if we
    >> were looking to spend a little more $$ the first time around they'd be
    >> more interested in returning my calls? :)
    >>
    >> Thanks in advance for any advice/tips.
    >>
    >> Ray
    >>
    >>
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    Aaron Leonard
    Aaron Leonard
    aachleon@gmail.com

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