Paul, I've got a considerable amount of Equallogic experience and one of the main reasons I chose them was that you get SAN-to-SAN replication for free. Along those same lines, watch the software\licensing costs as you compare solutions. As you license SAN protocols (NFS\CIFS\iSCSI, etc.) and features (replication...) the costs will climb.
Also, I'm happy to refer you, or anyone, to a top-notch Dell channel VAR that I've worked with for about seven years. Shook From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAN Storage Looking for a little feedback folks. We've got a SAN replacement coming up in a few months. We're pretty much a vmware shop except where a service has to run on a physical server (IO cards etc.). The vendors I'm primarily looking at are Lefthand, Equallogic and Netapp, and possibly EMC since Dell can quote on an EMC solution as well as Equallogic. I've not had quotes yet, but so far my instincts are leaning towards Netapp, mainly because of the things I keep hearing about NFS for vmware, as well as the fact they seem to offer a lot of flexibility whereas Lefthand and Equallogic offer iSCSI and, well yeah, they offer iSCSI. Be interested to hear any experiences, especially around vmware and replication between SANs at live/backup sites (not a live failover site but a "this will take a little work but we have a copy of the data that's an hour old" site). ________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- You are currently subscribed to ntsysadmin as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/u?id=8142875.a9cf90b99baa17cb4fcf8293a59eb3b1&n=T&l=ntsysadmin&o=9079425 or send a blank email to leave-9079425-8142875.a9cf90b99baa17cb4fcf8293a59eb...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
