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    Network pics thread

    That sucks, what are you going to use to move all the data to while you delete it and reinstall to update for 3.0 code? 2.4 > 3.0 requires a full reinstall of the system. Going forward they are telling us its non disruptive though. Yes its pure flash, they use hitachi 800gb sas ssds. I...
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    Network pics thread

    Newest storage array... EMC XtremIO. This is the first array in cincinnati. It consistent of 2x 20TB bricks. We've not really done any IOP saturation but based on some vmotion and msc other task it easily produces 500,000 io.
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    A small datacenter build and other projects

    TT This thread is sweet.
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    Small datacenter build-out

    Sometimes I wish we had some VNX cabs to put our arrays in so they were all pretty and unmatched.. lol.
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    LSI Card on Commodity Hardware?

    Supermicro stuff is hit and miss though really. They've had some shitty designs where they had to release an entire new motherboard to fix basic things.. like nic ordering LOL.
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    Small datacenter build-out

    Interesting.. I'm gonna have a chat with my reseller to see if we can get some SSDs for a 5300.
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    Small datacenter build-out

    Can't be paying to much less, even refurbished drives are $2500 right now.
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    Small datacenter build-out

    The $/Iop those units give you is terrible. Your into that what half a mill? Those 200gb drives are nearly $3500/ea from emc if not more.
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    Network pics thread

    Pass through is just like having a nic in a rack mounted chassis... are you trying to reason a point here or make yourself look stupid? :D
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    Network pics thread

    Define share backplane? Need more than 6x 10G ports per server?
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    Network pics thread

    We use all crucial M500 SSD/Samsung 830/840PRO ssd. Only had a few failures over 2 years, 99% of them were within the first few hours.
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    Network pics thread

    Sounds like a new meaning for "kicked from the raid pool" :D
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    Network pics thread

    Depends what your doing, if you have a lot of sequential IO the 10G will help, if you do a lot of iops multiple 1g ports with multipath will be just fine. If you need quotes on nimble stuff pm me, I can help you get a good deal!
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    Network pics thread

    Let me give you some advice. Disk only based systems are VERY reliable and have guaranteed performance. You know how many spindles are available and what sort of iops that data set will have at all times. With a cache accelerated system like nimble tintri ect... your data is only as fast as...
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    Network pics thread

    Way less, blades are extremely power efficient, I wish we would have moved to it sooner. I'd say nearly 50% less power used on our blade systems than rack mount servers. 10G Ethernet with FCOE. No LACP is for the birds. We do a lot of active active software defined networking and vmware...
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