What are your storage requirements? We were able to evade the SAN question entirely with very large NAS that supports block synchronization between two (or more) nodes - talking 24-48TB per node. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955
On Nov 18, 2010, at 5:44 PM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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
