Thanks Greg
We did look into Sledgehammer but where put off by the lack of support
over here in Australia, same goes for Bluearc as well. In fact BA did
offer to ship a second head unit to Australia but I then preferred it
if we bought the second head unit ourselves.
NetApp have a good support infrastructure here in Australia so that
made a big difference to our final decision.
I think the order has gone in now, we are going for the new(ish)
FAS3050 gateway (active/active heads). Looking forward to chucking
the test at it ;)
Dylan
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:23 am, Greg Ercolano wrote:
> [posted to rush.general]
>
> Greg Ercolano wrote:
> > Dylan Penhale wrote:
> >> Hi guys
> >>
> >> We looking for post production houses that use EMC NAS based
> >> storage systems, for both 3D and 2D as we are interested to hear
> >> how they match up against Netapp NAS systems. We realise that
> >> EMC has a strong foot hold in SAN markets, but we like the NAS
> >> simplicity and rem aware of GFS based technologys (such as
> >> Netapp purchase of Spinniker) that will enable NAS systems to
> >> inherit many SAN type capabilities.
> >>
> >> Could anyone suggest any post houses that use EMC?
> >
> > I know a few folks in town testing out EMC's Sledgehammer..
>
> OK, I was wrong, the eval I was thinking of was a
> MAX-T product (MAX-T.COM) called "Sledgehammer".
>
> The company /doing the eval/ had "EMC" in its name,
> so that crossed my wires.
>
> So I have no input to offer about EMC's NAS product (EMC.COM).
>
> I can tell you that the folks eval'ing the MAX-T/Sledgehammer
> product did the 'dd' test I normally recommend, ie:
>
> dd if=/dev/null of=/path/to/server/foo-`hostname`.jnk
>
> and I'm told it actually tested well.
> I didn't oversee the test myself, but there's some second hand
> info.
>
> > I believe EMC's product is Linux based,
>
> Strike that -- I have no idea of what EMC's core technology
> involves.
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