Thursday May 07, 2009
Thursday May 07, 2009
Network World's Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System Review
 Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System |
Network World's Logan Harbaugh tested the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System, giving it a rating of 3.75 out of 5.0. In his review, Logan focused his evaluation on the system's architecture, performance and business analytics, and noted that the unit "is certainly a high-performance offering." Logan highlighted the test system's configurations (noting the read- and write-enabled SSDs, Quad-core Opteron-based 7410 controllers, SATA drives and J4400 drive shelves) leading to a discussion of the 7410's clustering capabilities. The reviewer next turned his focus to the 7410's performance. He employed IOmeter, configured with four sets of application-based workloads to simulate storage traffic. Logan noted, "Performance of the single controller system, as far as our limited test bed could verify, was excellent." Logan also took a look at management and reporting capabilities. He commented, "the business analytics section of the GUI-based admin interface contains very useful monitoring tools, with the ability to drill down to specific interfaces, network or storage protocols." He went on to describe that reports are available in a very wide variety of formats, with many variations. Further, he noted that reports are available for disk IO, overall storage utilization, and historical data is available and the amount of storage used for logging can be adjusted to keep data for longer or shorter periods of time. Logan concluded, that the system is "clearly positioned - in terms of price, feature set and performance capacity - to go toe-to-toe with big systems from NetApp and EMC that are designed to support dozens of connected servers simultaneously." And regarding performance, Logan reiterated that "while we could not push the box to its capacity, we were impressed by what it could handle in our test environment." The full review is here. |
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I sent them a comment that they were incorrect about needing an active support agreement to upgrade to the latest software. I pointed them to:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/FishWorks/Sun+Storage+7000+Series+Software+Updates
Granted, what person wouldn't run such a beast WITHOUT a contract?
Posted by Charles Soto on May 11, 2009 at 04:06 PM EDT #