tape drives (IBM SSA, IBM England -> Xyratex)

[Dave McGuire]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 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
>


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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL