We just purchsed (they're sitting in boxes on our server room floor, right now!) two 4Tb Lefthand units. For us, it came down to ROI, failover and integration with Windows/ESX. We'd also considered Datacore, and they were close, but the numbers worked for Lefthand. ROI was a bit more complicated than simply budget numbers, though. We looked at ease of use, maintenance and a few other things, after watching lots of demos, both online and f2f.
Needless to say, I'm stoked. Once we get these in place, we can make the case for the Enterprise version of VMWare, with vmotion, etc., much more easily. On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Jeffrey Showen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a methodology to evaluate new Storage Area Network solutions > for our enterprise environment. We have tight power, weight, and support > requirements and have narrowed the field to 8 vendors based on a variety of > these (and other) threshold requirements. The challenge now is that the > vendor submissions/solutions are mostly so close to each other that a paper > evaluation fails to significantly differentiate them. We are on a tight > schedule (management - don't ask) and it looks like we will end up testing > I/O on solutions from all 8 vendors (Dell, EMC, IBM, NetApp, LeftHand > Networks, Sun, Overland, HP). > > We are an ESX shop - is it enough to just configure the eval SANs (the same) > for our environment and then run Iometer tests from a client to the primary > SAN(s) or is there a better or more thorough approach? We want to use > mirroring/replication at the SAN level between redundant SANs for high > availability but that can get expensive so I am open to any ideas here as > well. > > I know this is a big question with sketchy details but there are a lot of > moving parts and I was just wondering if someone had done this and could > provide insight. > > Thanks > > Jeff Showen > iGov Systems Engineer > Tampa, FL 33619 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
