February 16th, 2010 . . .
Categorized under: Storage Virtualization, storage hardware

RecoverPoint/SE

Just spent an hour comparing Oracle MAA + either NetApp SMO or EMC RecoverPoint.

And then suddenly, I noticed something incredibly fishy.  In addition to being a CLARiiON only solution, RecoverPoint/SE also only supports Windows. (My reference material was outdated… RPSE apparently supports most major OSes now, my apologies)

It make sense that SMB shops used to run only Windows and CLARiiONs, so the “Value Edition” of RecoverPoint supports that particular combination.  But SMB shops nowadays are venturing out to FOSS solutions such as LAMP based Alfresco to save some $. But if that translates to having to fork over a lot more money for the RecoverPoint “Deluxe Version”, it’d probably make SMBs look into some other storage vendors with more FOSS friendly price quotes. (However, RPSE does only limit you to CLARiiON-only storage, so for those wanting to save money by using less expensive boxes from a competing vendor, EMC will make you pony up for the full veresion of RP) After all, not everyone needs a Mercedes C class when a Toyota/Honda/Mazda works just fine :)   Remember, Linux is your friend.

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Comments

  1. Yes RPSE is limited to the Clariion platform but for CX3 and CX4 models of the Clariion, RPSE would be deployed using the CX Splitter. When deployed with the CX splitter, RPSE supports any operating system that is supported on the Clariion. The limitation of only supporting Windows hosts with RPSE only applies to host based splitting environments on older (non CX3/4) arrays.


    Mark
    February 16th, 2010