Hardware Requirment of a NAS

[dmanleygen]

Hello all,

A quick simple questions!!!

When designing/choosing a NAS system how does one chose the hardware specifications of the NAS box it's self?

i.e. what processor, ram, etc... should be picked?

I do know this is "how long is a piece of string"!
But guidance or being pointed towards more information would be great!
Thank you,
Derry

 

[bilbus]

You have not said what this nas will be doing .. and do you mean SAN?

It's upto you, but really storage/controller is where it's at with a NAS/SAN. You don't install OS/software on a NAS/SAN so cpu usage is light if any.

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

The hardware depends mostly on the number of concurrent users and amount of data that will be stored. Every vendor will be able to link a certain amount of needed I/O's to a certain model of hardware they're selling. These boxes then have a fixed number of processors / memory depending on the model you choose then. Unless you go for a freenas environment , that can be run on a simple server, and then you can put in whatever you want.

rgds,

R.

NetApp Certified NCDA/NCIE-SAN