Feedback on Sun SE 6120 series or similar
 

Hello,

we're looking forward to buying a project specific SAN solution.
The SAN should be able to support our pilot, production and maybe even
our two test environments. (total of ~2.5TB)
We're currently sharing a HDS Thunder 9570 with other projects and have
just migrated from a heavily used EMC Symmetrix 8830. Both SANs provided
extremly disappointing performance (probably rather due to the
inexperience of out hosting partner than due to the product itself)

Because we only run SUN Servers, I'd prefer to get my SAN components
from SUN. After doing a quick assessment of the available products, the
6120 or maybe the 6320 series should suit our needs for performance,
price, available space and availability. The rebadged HDS systems (SE
99x0) seem like a bit of an overkill for a single project solution and
the rebadged Dothills (SE 3x10) only offer JBOD on the SCSI expansion units.

A fully equipped (84x73GB) 6120 Array could host our system easily
leaving room for 3 years of 30% growth. However I haven't heard anything
about the new midrange series, whether good or bad.

So is anyone out there with experience on the T4/6x20 to share?
Are there any other brands/models which we should take into account?

We're especially looking for a fool-proof solution, which is very easy
to host and maintain.

Many thanks in advance for any information,
best regards,

Jochen Kaiser

In comp.arch.storage Jochen Kaiser wrote:
the rebadged Dothills (SE 3x10) only offer JBOD on the SCSI expansion units.

Umm.. no they don't. The RAID 3310's support RAIDing of up to 36 disks,
12 in the base unit and 12 in each of the 2 expansion units.

The expansion units themselves _are_ a JBOD (ie, they don't have a RAID
controller) but that's just because the RAID is done by the controller
in the master unit. From the host point of view you only talk to the
RAID controller in the master unit - what happens behind the scenes
isn't visable.

Scott