Yeah, cant agree on GUI, sorry.
That being said, the upper end Synology devices look like white box servers running their own software? I am sure that is over generalizing but I'd probably be tempted to simply stoke up a RHEL box running IET for which I am very familiar with. I will keep them in mind though. Thanks, jlc ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 12:52 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Entry level iSCSI san for small shop Most SANs are going to have a good GUI or a poor one. (Frankly, most SAN GUIs are pretty good these days). It's not common to see "good CLI" as a highly requested feature in a storage array, but the Synology devices can be managed okay via SSH. I greatly prefer the GUI, though, for SAN management. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: They are an HP show, however I am open minded but it does make sense. For example all the sff trays and drives will move from server to san saving them much money which is key for them. As far as the software, as I have to use it I would like to have a good reliable CLI however that appears to be not so common on cheap sans now adays. I presume I stuck with some web based app. I don't need or expect much at the 1040's price point that is for sure. jlc From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Don Ely Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 11:47 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Entry level iSCSI san for small shop Why are you limiting yourself to just HP storage? There are bunch of suitable storage providers for a shop of your size... What are your expectations of the storage software? On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:43 AM Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I am working with a shop that is growing and they need to add some shared storage to 3 esxi servers each with DAS. We are looking at an HP MSA 1040 2-port 10G iSCSI Dual Controller SFF Storage, anyone have or know of these and have an opinion? Thanks, jlc
