I was just going to say this. Xiotech has some really great technology, and integrates with ESX as well if not better than all the others. Tim
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New SAN Selection Question I highly recommend adding Xiotech to the list. Their new "ISE" based SAN (specifically look at the Emprise 7000) is impressive. Played with it at Storage World in Orlando last month, and was highly impressed. "Jeffrey Showen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/29/2008 06:57 PM Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> To "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> cc Subject New SAN Selection Question 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> ~
