HP-UX & NAS

[f. halili]

We currently have out HPUX machines & WIN machines with disks on SAN, ( HPVA7410 or EMC Clariion ). Is there a NAS solution ( name & model# please )that we can use that works perfectly with HPUX & WIN? How are the disks presented in a NAS, do you have to carve up LUNs like on a SAN?

thanks,
f. halili

[KapilRaj · Accepted solution]

Theoratically, a NAS is nothing but a NFS Server with huge storage where you can create filesystems and export. Clients will 'NFS Mount' (Unix) or 'Map Drives' (WindoZ) .

Regards,

Kaps

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

They all prety much work. NAS devices mostly have a CIFS or Samba server built in and they work very well with windows and HP-UX and Linux.

A NAS device may not be configurable depending on which one you get. The NAS model is more the NFS/CIFS/Samba mount versus LUNS's which are presented via SCSI/Fiber Channel.

SEP

[f. halili]

Any particular NAS you guys would recommend???

[Ivan Krastev]

It depends from budget you have, but take a look at storage solutions - http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/storage.html


regards,
ivan

[KapilRaj]

I worked on environments with EMC Celerra.

About recommendation, I simply hate NFS. I would use it only for sharing some shell scripts or stuff like that. I would never ever recommend keeping an application that does a lot of I/O on the nfs mounted filesystems.

Regds,

Kaps

[OldSchool]

Ran EMC Clariion for a need of years w/ both production and development database on it. Multiple L-class servers w/ 1000BaseT + ~250 Windows boxes w/ 100BaseT.

One issue is that you *must* keep the times in sync. The EMC understood ntp protocol, so I just sync'd to one of the L-boxes, w/ the L-boxes synced to an external NTP server.

Started out w/ 250GB, and grew it to about 750GB. Performance was never an issue, unless there was a failed disk somewhere. That caused the in-board disk cache to be disabled until replacement was installed and rebuilt.

[rick jones]

OldSchool - I hope you configured (and the EMC accepted) more than one timesource for the EMC.

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi,

I work on Celerra and Netapps. Celerra is easier to manage and runs linux as base OS.

-Arun

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

we're using NetApp filer and it works very good.
name & model# depends on your needs (storage)
http://www.netapp.com/products/filer
We always had the smaller product line.
It's enough for nfs mounted storage (about 300 GB) for CAD environment for now 40 ws.

HTH
Volkmar

[f. halili]

thanks for all the info...