That behind that admitedly much improved gui the celerra is a complex beast.
That quite a few more complex system changes require an EMC Technitian. That being said, I do like our Celerra. And probably wont get another one when our current one needs replacing. The celerra is clariion storage and a file serving box which is unnecessarily complex for our needs. I'll probably increase the storage for our vsphere cluster and stand up a windows vm. So it all depends on your actual needs, i.e. number of vsphere hosts and nas clients. Probably more than you asked for but i get the feeling that EMC is targeting smb's with a product that they don't always have the resources to manage. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 18 nov 2010, at 23:45, "[email protected]" < [email protected]> wrote: Hello, I know there are many vendors and ways to skin the SAN gopher but I’m leaning towards this basic system as it meets our specs: EMC NS-120 10GB/s Celerra System Dual Data Movers Dual SPS NFS CIFS Seems they’re offering a pretty good price. I’m looking to virtualize with VMWare VSphere and think this SAN backend will meet our needs. My question is, does anyone have any experience with EMC Celerra systems or EMC in general? Would I be making a big mistake going with EMC or the Celerra from a support or stability perspective? Being new to SAN’s I don’t have a lot of experience so are there any gotcha’s I should be looking for? Any pieces of info EMC sales guys frequent forget to offer up? Please feel free to render any advice one way or the other. Thanks Jim ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
