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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