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jonny_smith
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15 years ago

Anyone using a Nexsan Satabeast array?

Hi people, we're looking into the possibilty of purchasing a NexSAN SataBeast to use in our SAN. Ideally LUNs will be created on the array and then assigned to hosts such as an E2900 running Solaris ...
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  • Gaurav_S's avatar
    Gaurav_S
    15 years ago
    Hello Jonathan,

    Not very sure on hardware part, however I just checked the HCL for SF 4.1MP2 for veritas, I don't see NexSAN in supportability list... so what I understand is you wil need to use this array as a JBOD which itself is limits you to certain functionalities of array... Also Symantec would state you same at very first stage about supportability.....

    If you plan to use a cluster, can't say if IOFencing would be supported as it works with SCSI 3 reservations which won't be there on SATA based array ..


    Gaurav
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jonny_smith
Level 3
15 years ago
Thanks guys. 

Sorry Dev, OS is  Solaris 10.

The NexSAN array would simply be added to our exisiting SAN infrastructure (which is a mixture of SUN fibre attached arrays). Any LUNs created on the NexSAN array would be added to existing diskgroups across various hosts so that vx volumes can be mirrored to a remote site.

I am aware that 4.1 is the older version of SF but at the moment it does the job on servers which run it so I don't want to upgrade it although we are running 5.0MP3 running on some of our servers.

Just generally looking for any hidden nasties with this array seeing as though it's not on Sun or Symantec's HCL.

Regards,

Jonathan.