We recently purchased a new SAN and it came down to Dell EqualLogic and Lefthand. Typically, Lefthand would win the price war but we were lucky that Dell had just purchased EqualLogic and was closing out the PS100e's so they beat Lefthand by a pretty good margin. Both have their pros and cons and it came down to me just liking the pros of the EqualLogic over the pros of the Lefthand. My biggest pro was the ease of use with the EqualLogic interface. I have 200 machines across 5 offices and 2 field offices and only 1 assistant so I do not have time to be an expert. I also did not like how pushy the Lefthand are reps were. To top it off when I told them the EqualLogic won they basically said that I was making a big mistake and would regret my decision.
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 > > -- Mike Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
