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| 6697.1 | | OTOOA::LAVIGNE | | Fri May 16 1997 16:40 | 7 |
| I hope your kidding. EMC does not support NT to my knowledge and it is
typically a very large box, usually 250+GB. You want to run a 250K
storage box off a 10K PC?
If they really want the EMC box VS our Raid 450 which is supported and
running in a number of places then let EMC work out the issues. I
doubt that you will find anybody within Digital to support it.
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| 6697.2 | don't be so sure about no NT support.... | TROOA::MSCHNEIDER | [email protected] | Sun May 18 1997 23:14 | 16 |
| RE: .-1
EMC does support "PC Servers" according to their web page information.
I suspect this means Novell and NT servers.
www.emc.com
I heard second hand information of a site in the US with Prioris NT
servers purchased to run SAP that are connected to EMC. Not sure if
this is in production. I wouldn't expect that there are any specific
issues hooking up a Prioris server to EMC .... after all a PC server is
a PC server and SCSI is SCSI.
Yes nobody is likely to buy an EMC box for a single Prioris, but the
likely situation is that EMC is already in place and we're trying
to connect our server to it.
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| 6697.3 | don't underestimate what Intel servers might need | TROOA::MSCHNEIDER | [email protected] | Sun May 18 1997 23:19 | 5 |
| Oh and by the way a small SAP configuration with production and dev
boxes might EASILY start with 150 GB of disk ..... connected to a
couple of Prioris Intel servers so it might not that far fetched that
an EMC box might be considered as a storage solution with a 250GB
starting point.
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| 6697.4 | | ULYSSE::STRATMAN | Peter Stratman @VBO | Tue May 20 1997 02:57 | 10 |
| Re. -1:
>Yes nobody is likely to buy an EMC box for a single Prioris, but the
>likely situation is that EMC is already in place and we're trying
>to connect our server to it.
Yes, this is the case...
I'd appreciate a pointer to a (Digital) contact (offline) if possible.
Thanks,
Peter.
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| 6697.5 | | DECWET::VOBA | | Tue May 20 1997 22:01 | 29 |
| Re .*, EMC _would like_ to support Windows NT but is not yet there.
There have been EMC customers who went ahead and tried to connect their
Symmetrix boxes to random Windows NT platforms with definitely mix
results. EMC has been aligning themselves with HP (and several other
system vendors) to create Windows NT solutions that they know/verify to
work. However, that's far from the Microsoft's sense of supporting
Windows NT.
Due to the quirks of current SCSI port driver in NT 4.0 and the quirks
in the design of the Symmetrix controller firmware, certain mix-use
configurations simply do not work. Mix-use is my term for a multi-
platform/OS configuration sharing a single Symmetrix box. Most of the
Windows NT customers, who are looking at using the Symmetrix, would
like to have mix-use configurations.
EMC is very aggressively pursuing a crash program to bootstrap itself
on to the Windows NT market. An element of that program is to have the
Symmetrix be certified for the Microsoft HCL. Another is to entice
Microsoft to be engaged via their SQL BackOffice and Wolfpack Cluster
programs. Another is to establish a local technical liason presence
here in the Greater Seattle area. These are only some of the more
pronounced steps.
However, they are facing several tough technical and business
obstacles. But, DIGITAL should certainly not discount them to be
serious competitor to our StorageWORKS products.
--svb
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