Competitors for Exablox
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
You would be able to use this as a VMWare/Xen backend at that point? Although not sure about the speed of the unit for virtual workloads.
With NFS yes, in theory, VMware and Xen would be able to use Exablox as primary storage. People do this today with other scale out storage, like Gluster. My guess is that once they have NFS it will work just fine. Might not be the absolute fastest solution, but for general workloads probably very adequate. Will be interesting to test.
That would be interesting indeed!
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Looks like we are going ahead with a trial of the Exablox, once we have it and I've beaten on it I will post more thoughts.
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@MattSpeller Awesome, looking forward to seeing some real world feedback on it.
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@MattSpeller Good to hear.
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Very cool, those look like really neat units.
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@Reid-Cooper I agree, they are sweet.
My primary concern is from a cost perspective I don't think they make any sense for our environment.
Another concern is I really*** really*** like new toys and I might loose some perspective with all the freaking cool things you can do with them.
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@MattSpeller I get you...since you started the thread I am still trying to get my head around the cost.
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@technobabble It seems that (rough numbers) it's $10k for one, or around $7k (each) if you're getting 3 or more. Now, remember, that does NOT include drives. You have to purchase all the drives and populate them (ok, slapping them in is trivial...)
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@MattSpeller seems pricey to me but my clients are much smaller and have less data storage needs, so this product would not be a fit anyway.
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@technobabble lol that's almost word for word my summary of exablox to my boss. We may just be too small to see the cost/benefit, though my hope is that it saves us a lot of man hours in IT. (ironically woman hours, I am the only guy in the department of 3)
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@MattSpeller now that is funny!
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@MattSpeller said:
@technobabble lol that's almost word for word my summary of exablox to my boss. We may just be too small to see the cost/benefit, though my hope is that it saves us a lot of man hours in IT. (ironically woman hours, I am the only guy in the department of 3)
Mostly women here too.
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Well, I have two units arrived now and setup. What tests would you like to see done to these?
I have the usual array of I/O testing programs* lined up & 1TB of hot fresh and nasty user data being dumped onto them.
*Solarwinds permissions view
ATTO Disk Benchmark
IO Zone
Intel NAS Performance Toolkit
