Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Two RAID1 mirrors are faster than three | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 10:29:24 -0400 |
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On Mon, 12 May 2003 15:20:34 +0400, Paul P Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net> said: > Replying to Anders Karlsson: > > I think it depends greatly on your needs. For small companies running > > commercial unices, this might be the best solution based upon need and > > As for commercial market veritas vxfs doing snapshots for ages :)
a) vxfs isn't free. b) vxfs may not be available on the platform required by the application. c) If you've already *got* platform A that doesn't have vxfs, you will probably think *really* hard about migrating - there's the costs of buying the hardware, software, and liveware....
> There are more efficient and less efficient ways ...
And often, a lot of inefficiency is overlooked. The cost of buying a new server from another vendor, buying new licenses for all the software, installing it all, arranging maintenance contracts, getting sysadmins with a clue regarding the new system, and all the rest of the costs of a conversion can *easily* outweigh any "less efficient" ways.
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