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Post Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:34 am   Post subject: My new toy at work Reply with quote Back to top  
So I've spent much of this week setting up our new SAN at work. This monster is a HP EVA rack. For the uninitiated, the Enterprise Virtual Array is a giant pool of disks, from which you carve out partitions for whichever systems are connecting to it. This one has 8 shelves, currently each shelf has 5 disks with 148GB apiece, so the raw capacity at this time is just under 6 terabytes. This SAN will consolidate all of our files, email, and Oracle database storage from our VMS cluster and various W3K clusters.

To connect all of this together we just got two Cisco MDS 9216 Multilayer Fabric Switches which provides 2GB/sec fiber connections. The disks in the SAN are, of course, fiber attached as well. We're backing it all up with LTO tape libraries, which I just got two of.

It took much of today to configure the first switch, and it's finally got the right zones setup to keep Windows and OpenVMS away from each other. We haven't started allocating disk space yet.

Whew. 10 years ago, I could get 10GB into one rack. If we fill out the shelves, this thing can store 16.5 terabytes, unless I got bigger disks...

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Post Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:51 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
New stuff, eh?

Congtats! Playing with new stuff is always fun. And the specs on that stuff are mindboggling. to say the least. Shocked

Oh... the old disks... where did they go? Any chance of getting some of them cheap(ish)? Rolling Eyes

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Post Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:54 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Nice. So smokin sold you his old server? Wink

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Post Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:19 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I got about 1TB worth of disks headed off to Tokyo. I think I got pile of old 18GB disks I'm gonna have to find something to do with...

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Post Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:37 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Oh boy a porno movie / pic server

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Post Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:37 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
edh wrote:
Oh boy a porno movie / pic server


yeah, right. I'll chuck some of that in my next Sarbanes-Oxley audit.

I'll say it's "trade related".... heh

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Post Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:09 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
EdisonRex wrote:
edh wrote:
Oh boy a porno movie / pic server


yeah, right. I'll chuck some of that in my next Sarbanes-Oxley audit.

I'll say it's "trade related".... heh
Well it is a trade... Wink Smile With 6 terabytes floating around, they'll never miss a few gig's...

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Post Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:48 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Impressive... and a single point of failure Twisted Evil

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