Re: Agami

Faeandar <mr_castalot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:26:52 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
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Faeandar <mr_castalot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:11:23 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
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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 just looked at this spec ***

http://www.agami.com/client_files/agami_datasheet_6136_web.pdf

so apparently they're selling a box of sata drives as something
enterprise.

Also, at 33" deep, it's going fit in even less racks than a 12/24 slot LTO
library.

I won't even guess where the support call center is.

I'd pass on this product real fast.




Panasas and Isilon are both considered enterprise class storage and

by who, pansasa and isilon?

both use SATA. There's nothing wrong with SATA if you understand the
limitations and do not expect it to perform outside of them.

"enterprise" stuff should not have limitiations like flakey drives, or the
only selling point is it costs "less" than something else.

What would one call a storage system made with first rate drives, like SAS
or FC? Enterprise Plus, Enhanced Enterprise, Synergy System XP5000
Extended?

SATA is second rate storage, and may be suitable for massive amounts of
stuff you want to access without fetching a tape. That's really about it.

It might be ok in a workstation as well. I finally trust it enough to use
in my workstation, although with a RAID controller.

agami is multi-protocol, very dense, high throughput, has some
apparently nice features like replication and snapshots, etc. I would

Do any of these features work? I can't find a single story of anybody
using anything from agami.

assume it's less expensive too. If it's not less expensive then I do
not see a win here; others have been around longer with more history
so why go with a newcomer that is the same price and without any real
benefit advantage?
But I assume it's less expensive anyway.

If it's something that fits your requirements and floats your boat for
whatever reason it's worth an eval.

~F
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