Overall if you can go into a Compellent Id buy it, What I like the most about their product is the scalability compared to others out there, there's no need to forklift when you upgrade and they are in place non disruptive you can keep using the Drives and trays you have already so your investment doesn't get lost. The other thing was their tiered storage and thin volumes, with this you are able to seriously cut back on spending $$$ on required Fiber space since you can put policies in place that move the unused blocks to Tier 2 or Tier three cheaper storage leaving the Active blocks in place on Fiber for faster access.
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN solutions +1 -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Jonathan Link < [email protected]> wrote: In your previous discussions you mentioned that you're not using anywhere near 5 TB now. IIRC it was 1.5? I would suggest that you're overbuying storage upfront. The entire idea behind a SAN is that you allocate (and purchase) storage as it is needed. I purchased a 2 TB (raw) EqualLogic array in April with the idea that I would add additional storage in the future (next year). On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM, John Aldrich < [email protected]> wrote: Yeah... the quote I got from Dell was MSRP because I'm working with a VAR and they won't quote against themselves. J From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN solutions Probably not apples to apples but I had a quote for an 8TB EQ array for well less than 20 a few months ago. ________________________________ From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN solutions Yeah... but I have a feeling that the Compellent solution may be lower cost. J I got an MSRP on an Equallogic system... $42K for a 5 Tb useable system... No way I'm going to be able to afford two of those to do D/R. L From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN solutions Lefthand (Bought by HP) and Equalogic (bought by Dell) play in this space as well. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAN solutions Anyone know anything about a SAN manufacturer called Compellent? I just had a webinar with them and they seem like they're pretty good. They have separate drive chassis and controllers, with the controller being essentially a server class machine. Anyway, just thought I'd ask in here if anyone had any experience with them. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/> Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.34/2462 - Release Date: 10/27/09 07:38:00 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/> Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.34/2462 - Release Date: 10/27/09 07:38:00 _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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