1 May
2008
1 May
'08
5:16 a.m.
On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
If you're not really careful with FC, or using a
very small,
completely
homogenous (including firmware version) setup, it's really easy to
have
big problems that affect everything on the SAN. The administrative
group on campus recently had some problems with their EMC-based SAN,
which resulted in various machines overwriting filesystems/LUNs
belonging to other machines. From what I heard, the root cause was
the
fact that they had different firmware versions on some of their EMC FC
switches. (Or, perhaps, because they're using EMC gear...)
...which is precisely why I avoid EMC gear. They are the
Microsoft of the high-end storage world. Complete and utter crap
products, tremendously overpriced, but a damn good marketing
department. Every EMC installation I've seen has had those types of
difficulties. Like Microsoft, I have no idea why people keep buying
this garbage.
-Dave