Re: [PLUG] NAS appliances

["Sean Cummins" <sean.cummins@gmail.com>]

Disclaimer: I work for EMC, but I'm not in sales.  But here comes the sales pitch.... ;)

I'm not sure what kind of scale you're looking at here, but you may want to take a look at the recently GA'ed EMC NS20.  It's NAS (NFS/CIFS), iSCSI, and FC SAN (optional) in one integrated box, and is designed to be setup quickly & easily by the customer.  The Control Station (integrated management server) runs Linux; The Datamovers (integrated clustered fileserver appliances) run a proprietary OS.

http://www.emc.com/products/networking/servers/ns20/index.jsp

Price/Performance is better than NetApp, and you get EMC support.

Thanks,

- Sean

On 8/8/07, Chad Waters <chad@chadwaters.com> wrote:

Does anybody have any experience or recommendations regarding linux
based NAS appliances?

Something like this for example?:
http://www.pogolinux.com/news/article_nas_servers.php

And no, the solution cannot be me slapping 1)NFS and  samba or 2)
freeNAS http://www.freenas.org/ onto a big disk array. I've asked.

-Chad
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