what you do not understand is that a proper SAN is NOT an complex setup, it is in many cases a simpler one because you have TWO controllers, disks with DUAL channel and a proper RAID level in ONE device
to built all this redundancy at your own is a much complexer software-setup and you can be pretty sure taht as long you are not dealing night and day with storage/Failover-setups the people designing a SAN have much more expierience what the are doing
Am 09.07.2012 12:01, schrieb Noel Butler:
Seem some people have never heard of "keep it simple, stupid" or "less is more" ... sounds like a few people here are falsely propping up their worth to their employers, making unnecessary BS to justify their own existence.
My experience of over 20 years of this industry easily shows that those who try to make complex networks _always_ have far higher fail rates than those that keep it simple, nearly never have any problems, and when they do its because the powers failed, the gennies didnt kick in and UPS's died before engineers got the gennies going. I've also seen most networks that use SAN's have a far more problems than those using NAS's think about using a general server as a NAS.
- providing you use decent NAS gear like EMC or Netapp :) Don't evne
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:46 +0100, J E Lyon wrote:
On 9 Jul 2012, at 10:41, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Many people just want to be proud, or want to make things expensive so their clients are proud. but not always it's like that.
You go on a bit about "pride in complexity" . . What you fail to understand is that many highly intelligent, experienced, very able engineers build systems that are as complex and as large as they _need to be_ and just because you don't deal with such large systems doesn't make everyone else wrong. (Okay, I know, some people are proud, and some people do make bad decisions about large complex systems -- but you make the mistake of assuming everyone does.)
Just my 0.02 -- hope it helps.
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