EMC Clariion 4500 (Your opinion)

From: <freedive_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:04:10 GMT
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Hi,

Anyone out there has opinion on EMC Clariion's FC4500 system - good or bad ?? We just purchased one. It will be hooked up to our SUN E6500 Oracle server w/800 users. Currently it has attached two A3500 arrays, each has five D1000 enclousre. Each enclosure has ten 18G disks. They are all connected via SCSI.

We are running the following softwares :

   Sun OS 2.6
   Oracle 8.0.6.0.0
   Veritas Volume Manager 2.5
   Veritas File System 3.3.2 (w/ Oralce Quick I/O)    Networker 5.5.1

We'd like to know :

Complexity of setting up the FC4500 system. Anything we need to watch out for e.g., hooking up the system to E6500. Should we get EMC or SUN/reseller involved ??
Performance issue i.e., existing SCSI A3500/D1000 and fiber channeled FC4500
Any patches we need from SUN/Veritas for Clariion FC 4500 system
On-going issues/problems/workarounds w/ FC4500 that we have to deal with our E6500-A3500/D1000 system.

Last but not least, how's the support from EMC, especially on resolving problems/issues with co-existed SUN's disk array or Enterprise system ??

Thanks in advance for your help,

Bill

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