OT: Need fast NFS/NAS

From: NetComrade (netcomrade@bookexchange.net)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2007 - 13:48:23 EDT


All,

Apologies since this is not a direct Sun question. However, I know a lot
of very knowledgeable folks are on this list.

Can anyone recommend a relatively inexpensive, but relatively fast NAS
system, or DAS that we can use as NFS for backups.

We have a few digiliant boxes, as well as EMC CX100, not to mention a few
older nas devices.

On Digiliant boxes we can achieve up to 50Megs/sec, but all of our other
boxes (including the piece of $ EMC) can't do beyond 22megs/sec.

Since we do a lot of D2D backups (via scripts), as well as some rman
backups, the speed is really becoming a factor.

Can anyone recommend relatively inexpensive SATA hardware that can achieve
sustained (write) speeds of close to 100 megs/sec and beyond in RAID5
config.

In addition, can anyone recommend an 'inexpensive' backup solution for OS
so we wouldn't have to track down outputs of all these scripts :) Ideally
something that would centralize D2D2T, but centralizing our D2D would
already be a big step up for us.

We also do some 'offsite' backups using rsync. Any (preferably unix
based) software that you could recommend would be nice too.

Of course everything preferably cheap :)

Thanks,
Andrey
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