PDMwE and Equallogic SANs

Discussion created by Steve Hudak on Jul 1, 2008
Latest reply on Aug 18, 2008 by Corey Vantilborg

Like • Show 0 Likes0
Comment • 3

Looking to reach out to any groups utilizing Equallogic SAN solutions within their PDMwE environments. We will have multiple sites globally where SANs are implemented, and have remote sites connecting to them for drawing access. Anyone utilizing built-in SAN replication for Database high availability/disaster recovery? Any tips/resources would be greatly appreciated!

Steve

Outcomes

3 Replies

Matthew Lennard Jul 24, 2008 8:50 AM
Steve,

Did you get anywhere with this, as my company is looking to install a SAN network.

Regards,

Matthew
Like • Show 0 Likes0
Actions
- Joy Garon @ Matthew Lennard on Jul 29, 2008 8:06 PM
  Hi Guys,
  
  While I personally do not have any experience with SAN's, here is what little I do know:
  Storage Access Network (SAN) and Network Access Storage (NAS) solutions are gaining popularity.
  Unfortunately both solutions potentially come with a performance penalty depending on configuration. The best performance is delivered by a set-up in which hard drives are directly connected to the bus via the SAS interface on the same computer that hosts the file vault service.
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  Joy
  Like • Show 0 Likes0
  Actions
Corey Vantilborg Aug 18, 2008 5:44 PM
Steve,

We recently began using an Equallogic SAN solution with our PDMWE. It was extremely simple to set up.

Our benchmarking shows a slight performance increase over our previous file Vault(a SCSI internal drive array). We expect this to increase as we move client systems over to a gigabit network.

We are not using the SAN replication functionality with anything relating to PDMWE, Im aware this defeats the purpose of a SAN.

You may have issues hosting your SQL database on a SAN because the SAN might not have 100% availibiltiy.
Like • Show 0 Likes0
Actions

PDMwE and Equallogic SANs

Outcomes

Related Content

Recommended Content