I'd be curious to hear what IOPs requirements make you believe an EMC will out perform the EQL.
- Sean On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:06 AM, "David McSpadden" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks all. > Seems my biggest iops piece is requesting EMC over EQL so that is the route I > am going to go. > Only because of what I have read in threads here, and online, and some > realtime users of both(with my same application servers) leads me to trust > the EMC over the EQL. > I hope I am not sorry down the road but it really appears by the perf mon’s > or equilvalent from VMware that for these apps the EMC VNX will be my best > fit. > Thanks again. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Ryan Finnesey > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 11:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: EqulLogic or EMC > > I have also liked cisco for switches and Juniper for routers but the last > large role out I was part of used Dell for top of rack and I was very > impressed > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Sean Martin > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 2:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: EqulLogic or EMC > > I'd lean towards the EQL as well, but it boils down to your specific > requirements. Do you have the networking hardware already figured out? If > not, you have the benefit of working with Dell on that front as well. Force10 > has some good options. > > - Sean > > On Aug 19, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Ryan Finnesey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have always been a big fan of EqualLogic. Used them a lot with Exchange > and SharePoint. Always felt I got a good value > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of David McSpadden > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 1:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] EqulLogic or EMC > > I am down to EqualLogic 6500E or VNX5300. > > Anyone have any favorites? > Ups or downs regarding either of these? > > Thank you > > David W. McSpadden > > Begin Planning > Arrange for Reconnaissance and Coordination > Make Reconnaissance > Complete Plan > Issue Order > Supervise > > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members > Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the > individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of > the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this > message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, > dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly > prohibited. > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members > Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the > individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of > the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this > message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, > dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly > prohibited. > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email.

