Re: Agami

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:11:23 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
<presence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Kramer <mrkramer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm looking at replacing a slew of legacy Netapp filers (F760, F880, etc)
and am considering Agami among others. NAS virtualization is not an option
as most of the filers are in pocket networks.

Anyone have experience with Agami or similar?

I've never heard of the company or seen their stuff.

Is your data important?

www.agami.com

I've not had any experience but the specs and whitepapers on the
product are interesting. My biggest concern is always the file system
itself, nothing else. That is the data lifeline so it needs to be
rock-solid.

I think it's worth an evaluation but I'd put it through the paces on
data integrity. agamiFS has no real history comparitively.
I'd consider putting it into production for non-critical data and make
certain backups are 1) finishing without error and 2) test those
backups regularly with random restores.

It's alot of effort up front but, in my case, data integrity is
paramount.

~F
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