Comments on: Drobo Pro in the Enterprise http://www.2s2d.net/2009/08/11/drobo-pro-in-the-enterprise/ All things Tech! Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:27:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tarun http://www.2s2d.net/2009/08/11/drobo-pro-in-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Tarun Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:48 +0000 http://www.2s2d.net/?p=1544#comment-318 Thanks @Jeff - I agree. WE do use the 4 drive solution for Exchange replication and it works great...but I don't know that we could use it on a live server to pass data. Thanks @Jeff – I agree. WE do use the 4 drive solution for Exchange replication and it works great…but I don’t know that we could use it on a live server to pass data.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.2s2d.net/2009/08/11/drobo-pro-in-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Jeff Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:43:46 +0000 http://www.2s2d.net/?p=1544#comment-283 About the slow performance comment their 4 drive system is for long term storage or secondary storage it is not a high performance solution. Just an FYI. As to the Pro version we have 2 ESXi servers sharing one pro with 8 1.5tb drives running 15 machines in total. We have not had any issues so far after 4 months of production. About the slow performance comment their 4 drive system is for long term storage or secondary storage it is not a high performance solution. Just an FYI. As to the Pro version we have 2 ESXi servers sharing one pro with 8 1.5tb drives running 15 machines in total. We have not had any issues so far after 4 months of production.

]]> By: Brian http://www.2s2d.net/2009/08/11/drobo-pro-in-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Brian Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:06:46 +0000 http://www.2s2d.net/?p=1544#comment-223 I would be interested in your test results of running Drobo Pro iSCSI with VMware vSphere especially now that Drobo Pro is on VMware's HCL in all. Please let us know how that project goes and how many VMware hosts and what switch and config jumbo frames you use etc. I would be interested in your test results of running Drobo Pro iSCSI with VMware vSphere especially now that Drobo Pro is on VMware’s HCL in all. Please let us know how that project goes and how many VMware hosts and what switch and config jumbo frames you use etc.

]]> By: Tarun http://www.2s2d.net/2009/08/11/drobo-pro-in-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Tarun Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:50:59 +0000 http://www.2s2d.net/?p=1544#comment-203 Thanks for sharing, @Gerk... Thanks for sharing, @Gerk…

]]> By: Gerk http://www.2s2d.net/2009/08/11/drobo-pro-in-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Gerk Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:04:59 +0000 http://www.2s2d.net/?p=1544#comment-196 Beware to OSX users that run PPC based machines. iSCSI currently has a "known issue" that makes it unusable. If you try to use it on a PPC machine you get a kernel crash. They don't make this info very easy to find, you have to dig through the knowledge base to see that this problem is known. Without using iSCSI this unit is extremely underperforming. I have USB external single drives that are almost twice as fast even with this unit using FW800. I now have myself a big black (incredibly slow) lunchbox. Beware to OSX users that run PPC based machines. iSCSI currently has a “known issue” that makes it unusable. If you try to use it on a PPC machine you get a kernel crash. They don’t make this info very easy to find, you have to dig through the knowledge base to see that this problem is known.

Without using iSCSI this unit is extremely underperforming. I have USB external single drives that are almost twice as fast even with this unit using FW800. I now have myself a big black (incredibly slow) lunchbox.

]]> By: Manish C. http://www.2s2d.net/2009/08/11/drobo-pro-in-the-enterprise/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Manish C. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:33:25 +0000 http://www.2s2d.net/?p=1544#comment-186 Nice write up. Congrats on gettin' it all set up, too. Yours, the up and coming photographer. :) Nice write up. Congrats on gettin’ it all set up, too. Yours, the up and coming photographer. :)

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