Awesome. Thanks, John. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, John Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have it at the Dayjob, we started with an Equalogic AX150 FC and have > added a Dell MD3200i. All of our ESX hosts use both as storage. The FC SAN > will be going away soon, it’s 5 yrs + old and needs to retire.**** > > ** ** > > *John W. Cook***** > > *System Administrator***** > > *Partnership For Strong Families* > > *5950 NW 1st Place* > > *Gainesville, Fl 32607* > > *Office (352) 244-1610***** > > *Cell (352) 215-6944***** > > *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP**4, VTSP4***** > > ** ** > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, August 12, 2011 3:46 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1**** > > ** ** > > Cool. Thanks.**** > > **** > > Any thoughts about a mixed FC + iSCSI datastore environment like I'm > thinking about? I'm sure people do it all the time, but we've been 100% FC > up to now. The potential cost savings of adding a '2nd tier' iSCSI SAN over > expanding the EVA are very compelling.**** > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:17 PM, John Cook <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > I have a small QNAP at home running as an iSCSi target for my ESX4 boxes, > works great. I can’t think of any huge differences between 4 and 4.1 that > would cause any problems (we have 4.1 at the dayjob)**** > > **** > > *John W. Cook***** > > *System Administrator***** > > *Partnership For Strong Families***** > > *5950 NW 1st Place***** > > *Gainesville, Fl 32607***** > > *Office (352) 244-1610***** > > *Cell (352) 215-6944***** > > *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4***** > > **** > > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, August 12, 2011 2:09 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1**** > > **** > > Anyone using a QNAP device as an iSCSI target in a VMware ESX 4.1 > production environment? Any experiences you can share?**** > > **** > > On a related note, I'm thinking of adding some iSCSI datastores in addition > to the ones already presented via FC from my EVA. Any reason that's not a > good idea? 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