Dell NX1950 NAS Question

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

I worked on this project, and have one of these boxes serving production
duty as a file server. So far I've been fairly impressed with it. I have
all the shares setup as both NFS and SMB so I can use native protocols
on Windows and Linux. So far the NFS seems to be much faster and
reliable than I have found CIFS to be.

There is some setup overhead to deal with, which is mapping the
usernames/groups or setting up a mapping server, but once that is done I
think you'll be quiet happy with the NX1950 as a file server.

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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Rogers, Jamie
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 1:01 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Dell NX1950 NAS Question

Does anyone have any experience with Dells NX1950 NAS system?  I'm
looking for another storage solution and I'm looking for some anecdotal
reports.  I have a mixed Solaris, Linux RHEL, AIX, HP-UX, and CIFS,
environment that serves a number of HPC for simulations.  I currently
use Netapp's to serve the data but I'm getting maxed out there.  I
really don't like the thought of using Windows Unified Data Storage
Server to serve up files to Unix through NFS but I'm willing to listen
to what others have to say about their experiences.  I know that Windows
2003R2 is not certified for a number of OS's that I support, but I'm not
sure about Windows UDSS.  I'll spend some time reading on Mirosoft's
site but I'm still interested in what other users have to say.  
 
Thanks in advance,
Jamie 



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