26 Nov
2012
26 Nov
'12
11:52 a.m.
On 26/11/2012 12:43, Huw Davies wrote:
On 26/11/2012, at 10:41 PM, Adrian Graham
<binarydinosaurs at gmail.com> wrote:
That was kind of my recollection. Was the Digital SAN the EVA? Then
there was the "old" HSG80/HSZ80 that was really Digital...
It's repackaged SmartArray version 5 hardware
from the Proliant range,
essentially a 5304 array controller. All Compaq designed hardware
right down to the midplane, and even shares the cache battery module
from the 5300/6300 controllers.
I can definitely confirm it's a pre-merger
Compaq design - I had a very boozy dinner with a couple of the Compaq Storage team in
Sydney in 2000 where we talked about it in some detail. At that stage I was working for
Compaq supporting an OpenVMS customer who were planning to use them (and eventually did).
A few years later (about 12) and I'm now working there but we have moved on from
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