jonny_smith
15 years agoLevel 3
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 10, Symantec Storage Foundation Suite 4.1 and Oracle 10g.
I was hoping anyone who has had experience of these arrays could give me an insight into any hidden problems that weren't foreseen at the time of purchase. I did read somewhere that the data cache isn't battery backed up and I'm not too sure about the idea of spinning disks up/down via AutoMaid etc.
Any feedback albeit positive or negative would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan.
I was hoping anyone who has had experience of these arrays could give me an insight into any hidden problems that weren't foreseen at the time of purchase. I did read somewhere that the data cache isn't battery backed up and I'm not too sure about the idea of spinning disks up/down via AutoMaid etc.
Any feedback albeit positive or negative would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan.
- 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