If were to guess, the 2020 is one of their entry level devices and wasn't up to the task of what they intended to do... I use 2020's in our remote sites for CIFS shares and D2D backups. Then that data is replicated back to Corporate and we have an instance on disk and then rip to tape for offsite/archving requirements... I use their bigger stuff for my VM storage...
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]>wrote: > So why did you move away from the NetApp? > > -----Original Message----- > From: System Manager [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:18 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: NAS/SAN > > We just recently moved away from a NetAPP FAS2020 to an EqualLogic > PS6000. Very > happy with it so far. > > Kevin > > John Aldrich 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
