Ask about watchdog reboots. It took awhile for us to get confirmation of what was causing the reboots in the first place.
Thanks, Jeremy Phillips From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I echo the S500 comments, we have two of them. We do Full Disk Replication to a DR site. The gui is slow, tends to crash. The console is totally not supported, but when we do finally get a Tier 3 guy we can understand they do it all through the console anyway... I see why its unsupported because one wrong key click and poof goes your volume.. I will not be buying any of these again in the future. For smaller scale implementations we use the MD3000i and for larger we do the Equalogic or if they just require very high IO in a SMB environment. (Virtualized Exchange, SQL, etc using Vmware or Virtual Server for instance) I am worred about the 85% issue, have not seen that yet, but will be calling support and waiting to get confirmation and if so a fix for it. Thanks Greg From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I've seen a number of issues with them honestly. Performance issues aside... 1) Their support is absolutely useless. If your production S500 goes down on a Saturday morning, you may not get it back up until Monday as they do not employ Tier 3 support on the weekends. 2) The filer panics and reboots when a volume hits 85% utilization. 3) Any changes made outside of the 'StoreVault Manager' GUI software are not supported. Even though there is a command line, you can't do anything in it and expect it to be supported. I could go on, but those are my biggest complaints. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Well tell us why! jlc From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use The S500/S550 series does use SATA drives. We use them in our test lab, but I would no longer consider using one for production. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Manager of Operations | Azaleos Corporation | T: 206.926.1945 | M: 540.322.7980 You rely on Exchange. We keep it running. From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Doesn't that use SATA drives? The MD3000i we purchased uses SAS drives. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Hmmmm, I can get the S550 for over half of that cost with more space.. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: What Equallogic, seriously? I was looking at PS5000E for like $26,000, 2TB single controler config. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andy Shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: You couldn't handle it. Shook From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Man, I need to get some of that... On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Andy Shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Yep and just sent you something off-list... Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Equallogic is cheaper then an S550? I am seeing ~5k for an S550 w/o drives? You sure? Thanks! jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use JLC, Look at Equallogic. Better IO's and cheaper than S550's. <IME> If you need a referral to the partner I used to get the primo pricing, let me know. Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I need some more IO and don't have time to roll my own solution as I cant afford the testing interval. Looking at some cheap Netapp S550's right now. Anyone got any experiences/reco's they can share? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
