I did briefly look at Compellent some time back. At the kind of size of business that we are I wasn't entirely clear what their key benefit was other than the storage tiering? There's a few vendors that fall into that category, Pillar being another one, where I look and think "I'm sure they make a nice SAN but what makes them stand out over XYZ?".
From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 30 August 2010 16:52 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage Take a looksee @ Compellent, we just replaced and EMC NS-20 with a Compellent Unit and we couldn't be happier. With their Tiered Tech we were able to get less Fiber and more Sata shelf's which saved us a bundle. Compared to EMC the Setup / management was breeze. I Dmotion'ed all the VM's live and had Zero downtime from SAN to SAN. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage Thanks Andy, one of the things that appeals about Lefthand and EQL is that all the licenses are included, whilst with Netapp/EMC the licenses for different things are additional, it's something I'll be keeping a close eye on when looking at figures/options. From: Andy Shook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 30 August 2010 16:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage Paul, I've got a considerable amount of Equallogic experience and one of the main reasons I chose them was that you get SAN-to-SAN replication for free. Along those same lines, watch the software\licensing costs as you compare solutions. As you license SAN protocols (NFS\CIFS\iSCSI, etc.) and features (replication...) the costs will climb. Also, I'm happy to refer you, or anyone, to a top-notch Dell channel VAR that I've worked with for about seven years. Shook From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAN Storage Looking for a little feedback folks. We've got a SAN replacement coming up in a few months. We're pretty much a vmware shop except where a service has to run on a physical server (IO cards etc.). 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