Been doing some research trying to figure out if these are worth using.
What they were sold as is Lefthand P4500 SAN units.
After doing some research I found out that they are just DL185 with Lefthand SAN/iQ installed on them.
I have 2 of them, each with 12x 250GB SATA drives.
I know from experience that swapping out a drive with a different sized one while running, the system will simply not even detect the drive. Not sure if this is because all drives must be the same size or if it only supports certain specific drives when running the SAN/iQ software.
It looks like they support up to 1TB drives per bay. If they support 2TB, that would be even better. I will have to look up the specs on the RAID card to see what I can find out.
The question I had was if I would see any noticeable performance increase when using them as a SAN if I added a second CPU or added more RAM.
The processor should be a Quad core Opteron at 2 - 2.3Ghz from what I could find out about the stock setup.
They also only have 2GB of RAM installed each. I am guessing this is why it used to take so long to delete snapshots when I had them in a production environment.
Anybody have any experience with upgrading these when running the SAN/iQ software?
What they were sold as is Lefthand P4500 SAN units.
After doing some research I found out that they are just DL185 with Lefthand SAN/iQ installed on them.
I have 2 of them, each with 12x 250GB SATA drives.
I know from experience that swapping out a drive with a different sized one while running, the system will simply not even detect the drive. Not sure if this is because all drives must be the same size or if it only supports certain specific drives when running the SAN/iQ software.
It looks like they support up to 1TB drives per bay. If they support 2TB, that would be even better. I will have to look up the specs on the RAID card to see what I can find out.
The question I had was if I would see any noticeable performance increase when using them as a SAN if I added a second CPU or added more RAM.
The processor should be a Quad core Opteron at 2 - 2.3Ghz from what I could find out about the stock setup.
They also only have 2GB of RAM installed each. I am guessing this is why it used to take so long to delete snapshots when I had them in a production environment.
Anybody have any experience with upgrading these when running the SAN/iQ software?