Aetherstore, looks amazing, what about...
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How many do you have? How long have you had them? We've been talking about getting some.
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@scottalanmiller said:
What code is the SG200 running? It isn't' IOS.
No it's not IOS but it supports the IOS commands.
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@scottalanmiller said:
How many do you have? How long have you had them? We've been talking about getting some.
Sorry I meant we've standardized on the Prosafe switches. I am going to get one of the Ubiquiti ones if we need to expand in the future.
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You might consider the Dell Power Connect Switches or HP Procurves as well. I like them both. I still standardize with Cisco though. I much prefer the Catalyst layer 3 switches over any of them.
The Current SG series is based off the Cisco ESW500 which was never a Linksys product. (suppose to be a replacement for Cisco Catalyst Express)
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HP Procurves what what we were going to go for, but we need 50 ports, next year's budget when I'm not here
Despite only have 11-12 in an office, It's basically a small conference centre + other activities that go on.
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@thecreativeone91 I got my CCNA... and the first network admin job I had had 1 Cisco router when I started... but we wound up going with HP Switches because they were more affordable at the time than the Cisco switches. We never looked back!
If I build a new network, unless there is some requirement for Cisco, then I'd build the network with HP from the ground up and not bat an eye.
@Breffni-Potter -- That really irked me when we did our last refresh. The switches went from 50 ports down to 48, lol. It didn't mess us up anywhere, but that was still aggravating!
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Oh wait, 50 in one building
Post the Fibre links there is 24 needed in eachAnyway, we've kind of derailed the thread slightly.
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@Breffni-Potter Not too terribly derailed. We were concerned withouw Aetherstore would work over 10/100 Networks... and somebody brought up the recommendation of an upgrade... that would definitely improve Aetherstore's performance.
I'm going to say Aetherstore one more time in this post... just because.
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@coliver said:
Sorry I meant we've standardized on the Prosafe switches. I am going to get one of the Ubiquiti ones if we need to expand in the future.
Oh okay, same as us. Since 1997. Actually, started on hubs, but still Netgear.
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@Breffni-Potter said:
HP Procurves what what we were going to go for, but we need 50 ports, next year's budget when I'm not here
ProCurve is nice too. Quite a bit more money, typically, than ProSafe, though. For a non-profit, it seems extravagant in most cases.
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@dafyre said:
@Breffni-Potter -- That really irked me when we did our last refresh. The switches went from 50 ports down to 48, lol. It didn't mess us up anywhere, but that was still aggravating!
Netgear ships 52 ports. I love the four extra ports
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@Breffni-Potter said:
Oh wait, 50 in one building
Post the Fibre links there is 24 needed in eachAnyway, we've kind of derailed the thread slightly.
Just two buildings? Two low cost ProSafe which built in fibre ports (still need one adapter each) would be a really cheap project. You are below my home networking gear at this point as this is what I run at home, but with the 52 port version!
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@dafyre said:
@Breffni-Potter Not too terribly derailed. We were concerned withouw Aetherstore would work over 10/100 Networks... and somebody brought up the recommendation of an upgrade... that would definitely improve Aetherstore's performance.
I'm going to say Aetherstore one more time in this post... just because.
Exactly. AetherStore would love to see you use the cost savings of AetherStore to pay for a low cost switch upgrade. The cost of AetherStore plus GigE switches is easily going to be less than the cost of getting a NAS. And if you have other storage, it is still going to be constrained by the FastEthernet. But if you go to GigE and AetherStore you get such a leap in network performance that any AetherStore hit would be transparent on the network.
Of course, I would keep the AetherStore "mesh" all at one building or the other to keep it from bottlenecking on the single fibre run between buildings.
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Back on topic a bit. This product would be really cool if you dropped a 1TB HDD into each workstation.
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@coliver said:
Back on topic a bit. This product would be really cool if you dropped a 1TB HDD into each workstation.
And I think that, in reality, that is how people are going to use it in the real world. Huge multi-TB drives in higher end desktops sprinkled around the office.
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You might even do something like go with dual GigE teamed connections on those workstations in some cases to improve speed and reliability for the storage mesh.
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@Breffni-Potter (and all) Thanks for the great questions! Sorry we're a bit slow to the thread but we thought we'd answer the initial AetherStore questions firsthand:
Resource Efficiency:
You can use AetherStore with any software you’d use otherwise to schedule copies and backups. We appear as a mounted drive, and proactively replicate to keep data safe. The software has many mechanisms in place to ensure AetherStore's not sending data un-necessarily across the network, such as deduplication and local caching. We’ve run it on a 10/100 switch in the office and it runs well, we’d love to hear what you think when you try it!Encryption:
We currently use a local self-signed certificate. The data is not stored in the same places as the meta-data, so even with decryption you can't just recreate files to exist as they should.Replication:
As long as the file table is backed up, you can re-mount AetherStore on another machine to regain access to your data. A distributed backup of the file table will be available through AetherStore.Mount Points:
The upcoming AetherStore release is designed to provide a single-mount . We do have multi-mount functionality to build in but it's not quite ready yet. --- Noted on NTFS!!AetherStore will absolutely be available in 2015! We hope to have some exciting news for you all in the very near future. We look forward to convincing those who may or may not have had their coffee just yet!
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Thanks @shannon
