[BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

[Jeff Wasilko]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:32:48AM -0400, Nicholas Kathmann wrote:
> IBM - The DS4300s have been really stable, really easy to manage, and 
> the IBM tech support is very knowledgeable.  There are two support 
> options, one is hardware only and the other includes applications also 
> (such as RDAC).  This is truthfully the only system I'll do live system 
> upgrades of the SAN switches and controllers during production hours 
> without worrying about bringing down anything attached (which includes 
> live SAP systems, DB servers, a pretty large VMWare infrastructure, ...).

We use Sun's 6130 and 6140 arrays, which are OEM's from Engenio
(the same place IBM gets the DS4xxx arrays). We've had similar
luck with online upgrades on the 61x0 arrays. They're also fast a
good value...

-j