The Violin plays only for a single one-ear box, or for small groups with two ears as well? [LWN.net]

The Violin plays only for a single one-ear box, or for small groups with two ears as well?

Posted Mar 15, 2008 23:37 UTC (Sat) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
In reply to: The Violin plays only for a single one-ear box, or for small groups with two ears as well? by daniel
Parent article: How to use a terabyte of RAM

Agreed.  Nobody sane would bother to buy a US$50k+ storage unit without knowing this
information first, it is weird to not publish it up front.

Two ports is way too little for this class of hardware, IMO.  They need to add two more.

One needs two ports per host for HBI and cabling redundancy, and usually one will also need to
be able to connect a minimum of two separate hosts to the same storage (for HA redundancy).
Typically, a high-uptime HA setup would have two hosts connected via two PCIe links each to two
Violin boxes.

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