We just went through a big project to migrate all out file servers to a NAS. The evaluation pointed us to NetAPP - EMC failed the Proof Of Concept when the hardware they brought in was bad and they couldn't figure out that it was bad until a few days after the POC was complete. The powers that be chose EMC anyway and we have had a lot of issues - in one case they again had some bad hardware that they refused to replace until another vendor pointed them to an EMC log file that was indicating the hardware was bad.... We have a complex environment with 20+ CIFS servers on the NAS in 2 domains. Many of the issues can be traced to poor support from the EMC professional services people we brought in to help get the system up and running. I don't know that NetAPP would have been better, but it probably couldn't have been much worse. -Brian
________________________________ From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC vs NetApp I just went through this exercise as well, however, it was just for iSCSI and it was Equallogic that won the bid. I looked at NetApp, IBM, EMC, HP and Lefthand as well for a period of four months and it was a no brainer. I have my entire server install base within ESX 3.5 with a Equallogic PS100 for storage. Looking forward to purchasing another in late 08 for replication/growth/DR. Andy ________________________________ From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EMC vs NetApp It's tough to say, all three companies have products that are very good and will fit your description of what you want, it comes down to price and features. I just went thru the exercise of comparing Netapp FAS3000 Series and EMC NS series, they both had NAS, iSCSI, Fiber and large capacity. Overall we veered towards the Netapp because they had better features than the NS In the end though we got the NS-40 from EMC because the came $20K under the Netapp for the same disk space 10 TB and they threw in 2 brocade Fiber switches, also they support package was well worth it. I'm only familiar with the smaller Equallogic arrays and wasn't impressed with them, While very easy to setup and manage, We could only do one type of RAID on the array and on the database we attached thru iSCSI the data rate could not be sustained for write, but this was one year ago so they've must have gotten better From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: EMC vs NetApp Dell? Ack! lol On 31/01/2008, Eric E Eskam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Clayton Doige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/31/2008 09:01:42 AM: > Looking for centralised storage, the usual, Exchange, SQL, > File, Sharepoint. 100 users, 1TB of data, want the ability to > replicate to the DR site, and the ability to expand the > solution in terms of both storage and processing power as the > needs arise. http://www.equallogic.com/ <http://www.equallogic.com/> That was fast, the Dell logo is now there... Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar -- Regards, Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alsipius.com _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
