First and foremost – the Ontap simulator, a great tool which surely can assist in learning NetApp interface and utilization, lacks in performance. It has some built-in limitations – No FCP, no disks (virtual disks) larger than 1GB (per my trial-and-error. I might find out I was wrong somehow, and put in on this website),…
Not too long ago I have purchased a brand new Hitachi HW100 Workgroup Storage. 14+1 400GB SATA disks, dual-interface, each holding two fiber ports (2Gb/s LC). A nice machine. However, two limitations I have discovered are clouding my day: 1. It supports only Raid0 and Raid5. It will not allow me no-parity Raid, aka, Raid1….
As part of my voluntary actions, I manage and support Israeli Amateur Radio Committee Internet server. This machine is an old poor machine, custom made about 5-7 years ago, containing Pentium2 300MHz, and 256MB RAM. It serves few hundreds of users, and you can guess for yourself how slow and miserable this machine is. After…
