Just saw this on AJB (Amercia's JobBank)

[Darin Perusich]

we purchased the 9570 thru oceana matrix in orchard park. we looked at 
the 9900 series when sun partnered with hitachi but it was way overkill 
for us.

Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
> Who did you get the 9570 from- Perfect Order?   We just bought a second HDS 9980 and we're adding a bigger SVP and second disk cabinet to hook up to a pair of Sun E6800 servers.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: deadpoint [mailto:deadpoint at adelphia.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:32 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: Just saw this on AJB (Amercia's JobBank)
> 
> 
> storage area network.
> 
> san is basicly certeralized disk that you can attach multiple servers to 
> via a FC (fiber channel) adaptors. the storage array itself is an 
> extermely reliable piece of hardware, no single point of failure (2 of 
> every component), very fast FC drives, etc. the disk can be carved up 
> into blocks which can be made avialable to only those hosts that you've 
> defigned. multiple hosts can ever use the same filesystems if you use 
> cluster filesystems like XFS or AFS.
> 
> these are not cheap devices. you're looking at a starting price of about 
> $100K, and that doesn't include fiber switches what run $10K per 8-port 
> switch, and FC HBA's (host bus adapters) at $1250/card.
> 
> if anyone is looking for one of these drop me a line. my vender worked 
> us a great deal on a hitachi 9570 last year and he might be able to do 
> close for you. i'm serious!
> 
> Joe wrote:
> 
>>Can someone enlighten me as to what SAN is?
>>
>>Joe
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>>frank at mogosystems.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Essential Accountabilities: Ensure availability of Unix Servers and 
>>>SAN attached
>>> 
>>>
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com