This box is immune from the normal failure modes, as there is no component in the box that will bring the storage array offline if it fails. The box shown above contains redundant power supplies, redundant controllers, and (of course) redundant drives. I didn’t - my existing SAN solution was failing horribly and I needed to move to something faster with more performance, and a hardware vendor I use provided the EqualLogic on short notice at a superb price. There is nothing wrong with EqualLogic, provided you know what you are getting into when you buy it. What’s Wrong with EqualLogic, anyway? The PS5000XV While I hold the EqualLogic unit in high regard, I will be trying to replace it with open-source tools running on fairly standard server hardware. I run a XenServer cluster that depends on an EqualLogic PS5000XV for shared storage.
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