afidel wrote:
So we know SSD caching is coming soon, and inline dedupe has been hinted at, but today our local HP storage tech told me that NAS is going to be available on controller (vs the Windows based gateways) towards the end of this year. Apparantly they've been losing a bunch of deals due to the gateways and have had a bunch of try and buys returned because the storage guys don't like admining things through the gateways (good for us as we did our recent 7400-2 to 7400-4 upgrade through a RENEW bid on such a returned system). I personally don't need this feature as I prefer to use a VM as a NAS head but I know others here might be interested.
I have not hear that yet, but honestly I would not want their NAS on the controller. I personally believe the controllers are being burdened with more and more bloat. With all the new features coming I want the controller focused on serving IO and not running a SMB/NFS process on them. AO, flash cache, all the replications changes coming and to me the controllers are getting loaded up. Our V400 CPUs run 40-60% now during prime time and my Control memory is at 70%, do I really want to keep piling on top of these controllers?
I am already disappointed that they just increased the RAM in the V400s and are not offering upgrades to existing customer with the older lower RAM size.
We solved our NAS issue by just standing up Windows 2008 R2 VMs with RDMs and have large CIFS servers handling 10's of TB and 10's of millions of files and it works far better than HP X9320 did or even NetApp's internal CIFS. True it is still Windows, but we have been OK with it.