I will be the NetApp fanboy. I love my filers, why? Dedupe - I am getting about 33% space saving on my CIFS shares. This number will increase now that I have upgraded to a more recent firmware release and can combine volumes. Snapshots - I am keeping 6 months of snapshots that allow for easy/fast data retrieval, at a cost of less than 5% of volume space Replication - I am replicating between two sites, it only replicates the deltas. Nightly replication takes less than 5 minutes. I have created a share on the remote site for a read-only copy for the people traveling between sites. Simplicity - They just work.
I need to rebuild my VMs on NFS and from what i hear 50+% space savings is the norm, 80% is not out of the question. Their software options can get rather expensive. The dedupe is free, almost everything else is a cost item. You need to decide which options you need, everything is a-la-carte. Robert On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]>wrote: > The 20xx offer FC and iSCSI standard unless I’ve misunderstood (switch > cost aside of course)? > > > > The NAS thing, other than seeing a potential benefit in NFS, isn’t of much > interest – I’m struggling to see a benefit running CIFS from a NAS rather > than doing what we do now and having a VM as a file server? > > > > One thing I am keen on is, as much as possible, keeping it simple – the old > “if I’m not around” scenario. > > > > *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 30 August 2010 20:19 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: SAN Storage > > > > Their feature licensing is expensive… FC connectivity for VMWare is cheaper > on Dell/EMC, and for NAS connectivity, front-ending the EqualLogic boxes > offer’s more bang for the buck. > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, August 30, 2010 12:17 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: SAN Storage > > > > Can you expand a little on “migrating away from NetApp primarily due to > cost”? > > > > Regarding the NFS question, only that I’ve heard a lot of good things about > the flexibility NFS brings you and the fact you can expand and shrink on the > fly so if you need 500gb for a VM to test something you can provision it and > then reclaim it – obviously without the pricing I don’t yet know what sort > of premium we’re talking. > > > > *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 30 August 2010 17:14 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: SAN Storage > > > > We are using Dell sourced EMC’s for FC storage for our VM’s. We are > migrating away from NetApp primarily due to cost. > > > > We are spinning up EqualLogics as iSCSI targets for our file servers and > backup-to-disk options. > > > > Is there something that makes you want to lean towards NFS as a mount > technology? > > > > -sc > > > > *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.). > > > > The vendors I’m primarily looking at are Lefthand, Equallogic and Netapp, > and possibly EMC since Dell can quote on an EMC solution as well as > Equallogic. > > > > I’ve not had quotes yet, but so far my instincts are leaning towards > Netapp, mainly because of the things I keep hearing about NFS for vmware, as > well as the fact they seem to offer a lot of flexibility whereas Lefthand > and Equallogic offer iSCSI and, well yeah, they offer iSCSI. > > > > Be interested to hear any experiences, especially around vmware and > replication between SANs at live/backup sites (not a live failover site but > a “this will take a little work but we have a copy of the data that’s an > hour old” site). > ------------------------------ > > *MIRA Ltd* > > > > Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England > > Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 > > VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96 > > > > The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of > the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete > it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, > forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is > prohibited. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- You are currently subscribed to ntsysadmin as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/u?id=8142875.a9cf90b99baa17cb4fcf8293a59eb3b1&n=T&l=ntsysadmin&o=9079818 or send a blank email to leave-9079818-8142875.a9cf90b99baa17cb4fcf8293a59eb...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
