[rescue] The aesthetics of rescue

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 10:26 AM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>   You're absolutely right...I'm talking about "real" Auspex servers,
>> not their great big PCs running NT with crappy software.
>>
>>   But then again, I haven't taken NetApp seriously since they went 
>> back
>> to PCs from real hardware either.
>
> Well, at least the rest of the hardware sounds decent except for the
> P4s.  And everyone raves about the software, which is NOT windows NT
> based (or so we are led to believe.

   No, the new Auspex servers are NT based, not the NetApps.  I hung out 
with a few Auspex field techs a couple of years ago; they vented loudly 
about the Same
Old Suit Story...a bunch of suits overran their company and replaced 
all the real computers with PCs and NT.  Every one of them quit, at 
least two of them went to work for NetApp, who was making Alpha-based 
machines at the time.

   "Real" Auspex machines will continue to serve NFS requests from 
existing mounts even if the host processor crashes and is sitting at a 
prompt.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
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