Well, the one vendor who's proposing an HP solution is not proposing an HP-EVA. He's proposing an "HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 2312i G2" Unless that is the same thing. Anyone know anything about the StorageWorks 2312i G2?
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NAS/SAN >From personal experience, HP-EVA is rock solid with VMWare. We've got 10 VMWare host servers connected to the EVA, and over those 10 hosts, we've got probably 100-120 virtual guests. Running everything from SQL databases, Oracle databases, Citrix servers etc etc. Environments include Dev, test and production servers. Never had any performance issues. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:02 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for the info. I think I'll stay away from HP at this point, especially after reading this! I'm leaning towards either a NetApp offering or an LSI offering, depending on which is less expensive. Unfortunately LSI doesn't do de-dupe. I've got two different acquaintances who work for two different local vendors, one of which is the LSI vendor and the other is the NetApp vendor. J Gonna be hard to figure out which one to diss. *sigh* Oh, well. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NAS/SAN I was at the vmware forum the other day and netapp did a decent demo on their new offerings with deduping backups, sql and exchange for storage recovery. Also their app has a plugin for vcenter so you could manage the SAN from the vi console which I thought was a nice little bonus. Up to this point we have been building SANS via basic servers using either Datacore or Starwind software controllers. For other areas we also use NFS for less required storage like file sharing etc. My client just purchased 2 PS 6000's and I have another client who has an HP-SAN and running 20 VM's on it ran it to a crawl so they are moving into LeftHand after demoing it out. The hp san was managed and I never laid eyes on it other than running vmware benchmarks on it and it didn't fare too well, it was their entry level product. Starwind reports 3250 IOPS which is okay, but its memory usage masks a lot of that if you get a server with a lot of ram then the disk i/o is pretty good. Datacore does similar at a higher level (and price) but still less than a hardware based SAN of similar size. Im just learning about benchmarking SAN's myself (any tips appreciated). I run DRBD/IET in my datacenter because I can babysit it. I also have a Starwind server that does snapshot backups of all 4 of my esx servers and it does it pretty well. -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Haltom City, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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