Not familiar with 3Par, but if you are running a mixed environment of Windows and UNIX machines sharing the same files make sure your new solution works as well as the NetApp does.
The only downside to NetApp that I see is that to expand your storage by adding physical disks, you have to have the free rack space for the new drives and then move the data over to them. HP EVA systems you can replace physical drives one at a time - slow because it has to level each time, but effective if you don't have the spare room. It would be interesting to hear how 3Par takes care of it. -Paul From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 3Par vs NetApp Does anyone have any thoughts on comparing 3Par solutions with NetApp? We currently have NetApp, and we need to replace it. The price for the new NetApp is much higher than we want it to be though, so we are looking at other solutions. We are looking for 50TB usable space. How do the management apps compare between the two solutions? How easy is the 3Par to expand? (We are probably looking at the F400 series) Will 3 Par use SAS drives? I saw FC, SATA, and Solid State listed, but not SAS. I'm willing to listen to any thoughts that any of you have. Thanks! Rob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
