[34204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scalable Mail solution with NAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Johnson)
Tue Jan 30 23:00:50 2001
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:08:42 -0500
From: Mike Johnson <mike.johnson@isunnetworks.com>
To: Patrick Hollowell <phollowell@vnet.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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Patrick Hollowell [phollowell@vnet.net] wrote:
>
> My company is in the process of evaluating several mail solutions, scalable
> to 150k to 200k mailboxes. One thing we'd like to do is run the message
> store over Gig-E on network attached storage. Two of the vendors we've been
> looking at claim performance issues running this solution over NFS. Does
> anyone know of a carrier-class mail solution that will run well on NAS?
Take a look at NetApp. My company (unfortunately) signed an NDA with
NetApp, but they've posted that Yahoo uses NetApp for their e-mail:
http://www.netapp.com/partners/catalog.cgi/company/28
Rumor has it (no, I'm not violating my NDA) that Hotmail also uses NetApp.
-Plenty- of other large sites use 'em for e-mail. Just call a NetApp
sales person and and ask for the list. It's impressive. I do believe
it contains some carrier-class implementations.
Mike
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Mike Johnson
Network Engineer / iSun Networks, Inc.
Morrisville, NC
All opinions are mine, not those of my employer
