Big Storage

[Essentian]

This is what I'll be playing with next week.... :lol:

 

[yassarikhan786]

Nice dude, is that part of your job or did you just get the opportunity and take it?

 

[Essentian]

Part of my job, I meant to take pics of the whole environment but totally skipped my mind! I'm back there all next week, so I'll try and get some then!

 

[yassarikhan786]

Cool, looking forward to seeing the pics. Get some inside shots as well if you can

 

[Essentian]

Will do, it's really something to look at; got 4 racks of kit on top of this

 

[rossi94]

Holy c***. I'm jealous.

 

[Essentian]

Gutted I didn't get a picture with it powered up & the blue light on :lol:

 

[hmmblah]

You can't tease us like that and not give up any specs!

 

[SnW]

Can it Fold ?

 

[Essentian]

Well the cab on the right contains the engines, and the one of the left is disk, there's room for expansion of 3 more disk & engine cabs either side. An engine will support up to 120 disks, and I think the whole thing can scale out to a max of 1.5 petabytes (we've got a long way to go yet ). Under the hood we have about 80 disks (mix of 7.2k 2TB, 15k 300GB and 100GB SSD) giving us around 40TB and 20k IOPS. She's a beauty.

 

[Essentian]

Can it Fold ?

We have 8 Blades each with 2x E5-2680 and 192GB RAM, they might be able?

 

[hmmblah]

Well the cab on the right contains the engines, and the one of the left is disk, there's room for expansion of 3 more disk & engine cabs either side. An engine will support up to 120 disks, and I think the whole thing can scale out to a max of 1.5 petabytes (we've got a long way to go yet ). Under the hood we have about 80 disks (mix of 7.2k 2TB, 15k 300GB and 100GB SSD) giving us around 40TB and 20k IOPS. She's a beauty.

Really takes the thunder out of my project lol. I'm sitting at ~5TB and 3.6k IOPS. Any idea on budget for your project? $75k?

 

[Essentian]

Really takes the thunder out of my project lol. I'm sitting at ~5TB and 3.6k IOPS. Any idea on budget for your project? $75k?

Well this is it, the budget for this is a looooot more.

edit: Also - is yours a private cloud?

 

[hmmblah]

Well toss me a bone, 100k? 150k? I have no idea, enterprise gear such as this is above my pay grade.

 

[Essentian]

Well, the SAN alone retails for around £1m

 

[hmmblah]

Holy @##$&@#! Told you I had no idea lol.

I'm using it as a shared datastore for VMware.

 

[Essentian]

How many VMs have you got on it?

 

[hmmblah]

None are on the SAN right now. Waiting for Dell to verify my setup before I start moving servers from local storage. Will also be converting physical to virtual. Probably end up with 30 or so for now. Only licensed for up to 50. May end up also hosting for other local agencies.

 

[Essentian]

:lol:

 

[Techie103]

Excuse me while I....um....