george sibbald (3/25/2009)
...Michael, I like the boot from SAN idea, do you do that?. Our intel guys don't seem keen, saying there are performance problems. Seems to me it would give the slickest failover though...
Never used it myself.
I would ask whoever said there are performance problems for more info about why they are saying that. Did they actually try it themselves? Or did they just hear it somewhere, and are repeating an old wives tale based on some problems with early versions, etc.? Also, even if they did try it themselves, did they really know what they were doing?
Doesn't hurt to be a little skeptical. Of course, that also includes the promises made by SAN vendors with visions of of multimillion dollar sales.