John,
You can contact me at my work email at [email protected]. We are
in metro-Atlanta
Bill.
John Aldrich wrote:
I would love to do that. How much would you expect to pay a consulting firm
for something like this? I looked at a couple groups in the region and was
shocked that they wanted almost as much just to consult as I was looking to
spend on a SAN project.... That being said, it somewhat makes sense, if they
charge a couple hundred an hour for their services.
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 11:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN question
+1
Hire a consulting firm that can spend a day or two with you to work out what
your requirements are. They can probably recommend some options (which you
can then come back to the list for some sanity check)
Cheers
Ken
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 24 September 2010 11:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN question
Here is my take, swallow what you will ,spit out what you wont..
I have no idea what you currently have. Based on your size and the zillions
of posts around this.
Identify your space need for the next 3 years. Since you ARE running DFS,
you have to do with LOCAL drives. That means your server thinks they are
built in. NAS units and CIFS shares wont work . DFS requires Windows
2003/2008 Server to function. DFSR requires 2003 R2 or 2008 servers. Buy a
NAS that supports ISCSI (Drobo, Synology) or go with a good DAS, MD3000 or
such… Make sure it can handle your storage needs. Any of your servers if
they are within a few years can run Vmware or HyperV and interface with a
DAS and partition space if you want to go that route or install the ISCSI
initiator on your VM’s/Physical and map it to the LUN on the unit.
Purchase a Datto Backup unit. Capable of taking 15 minute snapshots of your
server and realtime dropping the whole server, SQL, Exchange, Files into
Vmware waiting to hit the start button in the event of a total failure. All
of that data replicates to their cloud for recovery in the event of a total
failure or disaster locally. Allows incremental recovery of data locally
as well and recovery to point in time for the whole server or mount SQL or
Exchange without having to go through full recovery procedures. Its slick,
I use it, clients love it, and it just works. I bet the whole solution
would cost you 15k and your monthly would easily spread out over 3 years to
your 30k. Your finance people will love not dropping 30k up front. You get
reliability, data recovery and business continuity.
I am the first one to admit, that I can get overwhelmed with the dozens of
options, and you are probably in the position that this decision/purchase
has to be right because if its not your but is on the line. So you are
hesitant to make the decision. We have ALL been there, and we all probably
get there more often than we used to.
I may suggest you contact a proven IT organization in the area and spend 5
to 8 hours of their consulting time and help them develop these “business
goals, IT goals” and then give you some options on meeting them. Then come
back to the list with a clear idea and let us throw out suggestions.
I have no more time to read this ongoing thread until you have done the
work.
Greg
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 11:17 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: SAN question
Oh, I understood that you meant that. But I have seen too many times that
the focus is on backup: making the windows, saving space, compressing data,
etc.
And very little consideration is made to getting it all back into place, and
reintegrating the saved data with existing data.
Even backup applications which talk about speed rarely mean "restore speed"
ASB
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