| Title: | WinNT-Clusters |
| Notice: | Info directories moved to DECWET::SHARE1$:[NT_CLSTR] |
| Moderator: | DECWET::CAPPELLOF |
| Created: | Thu Oct 19 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 863 |
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Are there any plans to support EMC's storage with NT Clusters?
Does anyone have any experience with such a configuration, eventhough
it's not officially supported?
I have a customer who has a large investment in EMC and will not
consider StorageWorks :-(
Thanks
Fred Velijanian Digital Equipment Corporation
AlphaGeneration Sales, Orange County 24 Executive Park
[email protected] Irvine, California 92614
or [email protected] Phone:714-261-4450 FAX:714-261-4556
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| 595.1 | TARKIN::LIN | Bill Lin | Mon Feb 03 1997 16:17 | 7 | |
re: SWAM1::VELIJANIA_FR
Sorry if I am out of it today, but what is "EMC storage?"
Thanks in advance,
/Bill
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| 595.2 | SWAM1::VELIJANIA_FR | Think AlphaGeneration | Mon Feb 03 1997 21:33 | 6 | |
EMC is a third party provider of storage devices. They are a direct
competitor to StorageWorks. They have traditionally been big in the IBM
mainframe world, but over the last few years have come up with midrange
products as well. HP works with them very closely.
FredV
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| 595.3 | NETCAD::STEFANI | Tue Feb 04 1997 11:34 | 3 | ||
They're based in Hopkinton, MA if I remember correctly. -Larry | |||||
| 595.4 | more on EMC | FIREBL::LEEDS | From VAXinated to Alphaholic | Thu Feb 06 1997 19:01 | 23 |
> > Sorry if I am out of it today, but what is "EMC storage?" > As the other replies said, EMC has been a "mainframe" storage provider for years. They sell high (the CIO level), and buy the business with their first few hundred GBytes. Many shops have standardized on EMC as their corporate storage strategy and intend on using EMC as their storage for OpenVMS, UNIX (all vendors) and Windows NT. Like Fred in .0, I have more than one customer who wants to use EMC storage in a WNT Cluster. Obiously, we have not tested it and can not say that it's supported. I guess the question the Corporation has to address is whether or not to test EMC and give it some level of support for NT Clusters. The other groups (pushed hard by the SBU and StorageWorks) have declared EMC "the enemy" and will not certify any configuration based on EMC storage. Unfortunatly, other vendors like HP and SUN who do not have a comprehensive storage strategy like StorageWorks have embraced EMC as a supported storage supplier for their systems. When we go in and say "if you put EMC storage on this system, we won't support it" we can lose the business to a competitor who is not as hurt as we are with losing the storage part of a system sale. Arlan | |||||
| 595.5 | SWAM1::VELIJANIA_FR | Think AlphaGeneration | Fri Feb 07 1997 01:38 | 6 | |
My local EMC salesrep informed me that they showed VMS, UNIX and NT
clusters with Alpha in their booth at DECUS. I'm still waiting to hear
from him if "EMC" has qualified NT Clusters and if they would support
the customer.
FredV
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