My experience with iSCSI SAN's are they are great in the right environment. For low to medium transaction environments with a moderate amount of data, they perform well and save considerable amount of money compared to a full Fibre Channel SAN. Plus you can use existing infrastructure without having to buy Fibre switches and HBA's. I have always used SCSI drives. I Have been leary about using SATA drives in production, however, some folks say they work just fine. The HP MSA 1510 has worked fine for me. I think it comes with on 2TB shelf and you can add additional shelves to that. The software iSCSI initiator worked fine. If you want to boot from SAN for something you can get the hardware initiator.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: HP AiO 1200 storage system What do you mean with IET's performance is really good? IET doesn't stand for iSCSI Enterprise Target? I'm talking about using this machine as iSCSI server (or target or whichever term you want to use). My experience was that with iSCSI windows initiators works good, with Linux, doesn't. Miguel --- "Joseph L. Casale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Yea, > If you buy a 750 gig SATA drive from HP, its not a > robust good drive, its a standard POS el-cheapo > that's only worth 150.00 but sold for 600.00. I > bought empty trays online, and went to a local store > to buy some Seagate's. Its setup with redundancy, so > who cares. If it was mission critical, I would use > SAS and something enterprisable but I don't think it > is or you wouldn't look at an aio. > > I can assure you although the iSCSI support in the > aio might be bad, IET's performance is incredibly > good. > > I probably wouldn't buy one of those aio's > personally, they seem expensive for what you get. > That 1200 looks like it was a DL320s, heh, what a > con:) > > jlc > > ________________________________________ > From: Miguel Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:23 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: HP AiO 1200 storage system > > Can you explained what you did with the trays and > the > standard drives? I don't understand it quite well > > Miguel > > > --- "Joseph L. Casale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > Hrm, > > Are you very price sensitive? I just bought a > DL320s > > for ~$2800.00 CAN and have been using Enterprise > > iSCSI Target under CentOS for a while under > Windows > > Server's and ESX servers with very good uptime > > (Perfect actually). I also use it for D2D backups > as > > well and I just ebayed the trays and use standard > > drives (super cheap) with good redundancy... > > > > You might consider that... > > jlc > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:56 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: HP AiO 1200 storage system > > > > We're a Dell house but I've recently been looking > to > > increase my storage capacity and HP has some > > attractive pricing. Has anyone used the AiO 1200 > > with SATA drives? Intend to use if for @ 500 GB of > > file sharing to 120 users and some very light > > application serving along with disk to disk backup > > and file archiving. Interested also in recent HP > > support experiences. Dell has provided me with > very > > good support over the years and I'd prefer not to > > shoot myself in the foot. > > Any input, comments or flaming appreciated. > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus > with > > Ninja! ~ > > ~ > > > <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> > > ~ > > > __________________________________________________ > Correo Yahoo! > Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y > antispam ¡gratis! > Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.es > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with > Ninja! ~ > ~ > <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> > ~ > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with > Ninja! ~ > ~ > <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> > ~ > __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.es ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
