by dave on November 11, 2008
Yesterday, I took a look at Atmos from a software standpoint. While Atmos is truly a “software” solution, there is an element of hardware to examine as well. Truth be told, it’s not as interesting as the core Atmos offerings but, there are some notables. We’ll start with a quick look at 3 basic configurations for Atmos.
3 Sample Atmos configs
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by dave on August 26, 2008
So you’re reading this at 12:01AM on Tuesday, August 26th…to paraphrase “Captain Awesome” from Chuck (on NBC), “Early morning group hug? AWESOME!”
Anyhow, let’s get straight to the point here: the NX4 is here. It has arrived in all of its SAS/SATA disk goodness. It brings with it CIFS/NFS capabilities, iSCSI for IP-based block level access, and 4Gb/s Fibre Channel for those moments where massive bandwidth and low latency are priorities. Sounds good, huh? Let’s toss in IP-based and Fibre replication facilities, auto volume management (for thin provisioning), and writable Celerra snaps and you’ve rounded out the solution completely. Did I mention that you’re going to layer this on top of the category-busting (sales-wise) AX4-5? [click to continue…]