Reply to rant: [olug] server life span

[Owings, Don]

Don, here's a good link on building your own personal SAN.  SAN is short for
Storage Area Network, in short it's a high-speed network that interconnects
different kinds of data storage devices with associated data servers on
behalf of a larger network of users.


Hope this helps




http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,57914,00.asp




-----Original Message-----
From: Don E. Kauffman [mailto:dkauffman at tconl.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:31 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: Re: Reply to rant: [olug] server life span


For those of us who are in the newbie category. what's a SAN? How is it  
different than a normal server / network?

Thanks!

Don 

On Thursday 26 September 2002 04:28 pm, you wrote:
> We have been using the XIOtech SAN for almost 2 years now with Dell
servers
> running Linux,NT and Win2K.  This combo has been a dream to use and
> maintain.
>
> Just my two-cents worth...
>
> Patrick Swartz
> First Data Resources
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-admin at olug.org [mailto:olug-admin at olug.org]On Behalf Of Craig
> Wolf
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:40 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: Reply to rant: [olug] server life span
>
>
> We just purchased a Compaq SAN device and 6 new 1U servers.  Ran us very
> close to the same price as buying 6 Fat servers.  We also looked at the
> XioTech SAN.  We liked their SAN device better but the ongoing costs for
> software were, um surprising?  Needless to say the Compaq solution will
> do fine for what we need unless we add Linux to the device then it gets
> interesting and expensive.  I won't bore anyone with more rambling...
>
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
> Backup Supervisor
> Desktop/Network Specialist
> Support Services Center
> Millard Public Schools
> 402-894-6283
>
> >>> schmeits at clarksoncollege.edu 9/26/2002 >>>
>
> Greetings:
> Gotta' bitch..  We bought a Proliant 3000 4 years. Since then we have
> added several disks and an additional cpu. Currently it have about 50G
> of storage space. Main function is a file server.
>
> this machine has served us well. But at the end of this year it comes
> off the hardware support contact and now must look for a new bigger
> faster server.
>
> I hate retiring servers.
>
> It seems silly to spend several thousand dollars and retire it 4 years
> later.  Is it me or what??  Why cant a person add another blade of
> some
> sort and keep the machine another 4 years of support. Is there a
> better
> way of upgrading servers than this???
>
>
> Might be time to look at a SAN.
>
> done with rant..
>
>
>
> Roger
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
>
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
_______________________________________________
OLUG mailing list
OLUG at olug.org
http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug