The cynical part of me says that it's so they can get 2x the sales they
would otherwise get. Isilon is already priced as a premium storage product,
so it certainly is painful for us customers.

Of course I don't have to explain to this audience how replication !=
backups - I've heard tales of replication on NAS devices (including Isilon)
trashing the replicated data due to software bugs.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 05:59:15PM +0000, Prather, Wanda wrote:
> It's awful.
> Only saving grace in my case is that the data is mostly images and doesn't 
> change much.
>
> I assume you've had experience setting up proxy relationships -
> use many proxy machines to back up the individual shares on the Isilon, so 
> you can have them all working at once.
> Then back up over NFS or CIFS.
>
> I can't believe EMC is still so far behind the times that they offer no 
> intelligent way to back up their NAS devices (e.g. Netapp Snapdiff or 
> V7Unified imbedded TSM client).
> But then, they tell their customers that the appropriate thing to do is buy a 
> second Isilon and replicate.
>
> I have never understood how that is appropriate - manual deletes and 
> directory corruption replicate, too.
>
> W
>
>
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