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Exabyte of disk space

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LeadMagnet

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I am working in a lab this week that has 200 Petabytes of disk space and nearly 1000 servers. And not a single bit of useful data on any of it, and not one single production clock cycle is run on any of those CPU(s). This lab will have over 1 Exabyte of storage by the end of 2006.

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Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
I am working in a lab this week that has 200 Petabytes of disk space and nearly 1000 servers. And not a single bit of useful data on any of it, and not one single production clock cycle is run on any of those CPU(s). This lab will have over 1 Exabyte of storage by the end of 2006.

bit
byte
Kilobyte
Megabyte
Gigabyte
Terabyte
Petabyte
Exabyte
Zettabyte
Yottabyte
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how is all of the storage space managed ?
 
Originally posted by: polm
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
I am working in a lab this week that has 200 Petabytes of disk space and nearly 1000 servers. And not a single bit of useful data on any of it, and not one single production clock cycle is run on any of those CPU(s). This lab will have over 1 Exabyte of storage by the end of 2006.

bit
byte
Kilobyte
Megabyte
Gigabyte
Terabyte
Petabyte
Exabyte
Zettabyte
Yottabyte
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how is all of the storage space managed ?
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Yes, c'mon we need more details than this
 
Yup, we all wanna know why.

Sounds like a government project for sure. I have 1.5 terrabytes but we use it all to store video from 90+ cameras.
 
cool job... so you guys have all this fancy hardware and nothing to do with it...?
i'd put up some FS notices on Anandtech.... 😀
 
Originally posted by: jfall
you work for hotmail don't you 😛
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How much does Hotmail give for free accounts now? Last I knew it wasn't as much as Yahoo, who are giving 100MB of account space for free accounts.
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: jfall
you work for hotmail don't you 😛
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How much does Hotmail give for free accounts now? Last I knew it wasn't as much as Yahoo, who are giving 100MB of account space for free accounts.
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250 MB but it hasn't added it yet
 
Originally posted by: polm
I am gonna guess:

EMC...Symetrix...Navisphere
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Ding... Ding... Ding... Ding...

We have a winner!!!


All that space is just for testing the storage array's interaction with 3rd party software and hardware for qualification.
 
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
Originally posted by: polm
I am gonna guess:

EMC...Symetrix...Navisphere
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Ding... Ding... Ding... Ding...

We have a winner!!!
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i've got a pretty stacked Symetrix sitting on my loading dock...it's been there for almost a year..it's not even plugged in !!!!!

just decomissioned a couple Clarrions from the Exchange team...goin to a warehouse in TX never to be seen again.

what a waste of nice equipment.
 
I am not going to post specifics ,but yes I am at one of their sites right now. We are building SANs to test some managment software.
 
Originally posted by: Mnementh
Originally posted by: polm
All that space is just for testing the storage array's interaction with 3rd party software and hardware for qualification.
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3rd party hardware ?
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I was just thinking that...
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maybe it's the Fiber SCSI Interfaces in the Servers ? Or maybe the SAN switches are 3rd party ?
 
3rd party means not

the OEM "Original Equipment Manufacturer" -- ie 1st party

not a company making a app to run with the OEM hardware -- ie 2nd party

But a company that makes software to interact with the 2nd parties' software - in this case SNMP
 
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
I am not going to post specifics ,but yes I am at one of their sites right now. We are building SANs to test some managment software.
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Veritas? Oracle?
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good question.

maybe it's volume management he is speaking of. replacement to Navisphere maybe ?
 
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