RE: Cheap NAS boxes

  • From: "Kevin Closson" <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>, "Oracle Discussion List" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:44:01 -0700

Well, you want resilient, NAS and low cost in one package. Very
difficult to do. Resilient with filers means clustered filers, or
multi-headed
NAS like HP EFS-CG, neither of which is really all that cheap.  Whatever
is serving up the two protocols (NFS and CIFS) is going to cost money.
 
 
 
 


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        From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield
        Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:32 AM
        To: Oracle Discussion List
        Subject: Cheap NAS boxes
        
        
        I'm after recommendations (preferably for products I can
actually buy here in the UK) for cheap resilient high capacity shared
storage. The storage needs to
         
        a) be accessible from both windows and linux boxes
        b) be cheap and reliable
        c) store backups including backups of RAC databases so the same
storage will need in principle to be read/writable from multiple nodes. 
        d) store shared media (think Oracle DVD media etc)
         
        I don't care overly about performance, I will likely want
between 2-10TB of storage.
         
        You'll note that I haven't specified a technology - though I
admit to thinking NAS. any suggestions? 
        
        -- 
        Niall Litchfield
        Oracle DBA
        http://www.orawin.info 

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