Greg, Just curious, did you look at the NS Series from EMC for your iSCSI needs?
- Sean On 7/10/08, Greg Mulholland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We actually decided on a HP MSA 2000i. simply for our ISCSI setup. Looking > at 20tb initially and adding another shelve later down the track, if we even > need it. > > We will deal with our FC setup when our cx300 runs out of warranty.. > > anyone have any experience with the 2000i? > > Greg > > ________________________________________ > From: Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:34 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: San Recommendations > > Thanks Martin > > I am waiting confirmation from Dell that we can use our existing shelves > and disks but i think that is true as we have been told it is a more cost > effective solution as far as being able to upgrade.. Obviously this leaves > HP out of the question. > > FC is working well for us and whilst i do love the idea of cheap sata disks > for our non prod and low end storage requirements i am not sure that SATA > will provide the iops, throughput maybe, to sustain our database servers and > mail servers. > > Thanks for your info. > > Greg > > ________________________________________ > From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:32 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: San Recommendations > > Greg, will the new SAN allow you to reuse your existing shelves or disks? > I'm not sure if you were alluding to that or not, but obviously if you can, > that would be a huge advantage. > Also, FC rocks, but don't think that ISCSI can't handle your enterprise > applications. Especially with 10GB Ethernet out there. > SATA is also starting to gain a foothold there as well. I'm still not 100% > sold on the later, but its moving up. It also makes for great archival > storage. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:17 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: San Recommendations > > Guys > > We are in the process of updating our aging and nearly out of warranty Dell > CX300 SAN. We were looking at the CX3-20 as we currently use FC disks. The > CX3-20 would allow us to use FC and Sata with ISCI shelves. The SATA/ISCSI > will be handy for our non production and non critical requirements. We have > now started to look at HP because they are trying to appease us and i would > like to know if anyone has any recommendations on HP san models. This > office > has about 250-300 users with a pro/non prod requirement for potentially > 100tb or near of space. > > We would also like to preferably keep our FC available for the exchange, > sql > and oracle use that is our core business. Fwiw the majority of our servers > are broken into vmware ESX hosts (prod and non prod) > > Be interested to hear anyone's thoughts. > > Greg > > ~ 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> ~ > > ~ 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> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
