I'd stay away from EMC :) and the Celerra, while the system is not horrid, configuration and management is, also the way that you have to present storage to the Celerra ends up wasting disks. We've move to a Compellent and couldn't be happier.
We had a CX500 and the NS20 with the Celerra head, had tons of problems with it that even EMC was baffled. We got the Compellent with a little less Fiber than the two EMC's together since the tiering storage moves data down to the SATA array, moved to a W2008 VM server with VMFS volumes for each share. LO and behold our performance has been fantastic and the cost was only slightly higher than the renewal for Maintenance of the two EMC's was going to be. From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 3:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: First Steps into the SAN Arena And EqualLogic is where we headed when it was time to set up a vsphere cluster. Getting another celerra or adding shelves to the current one didnt make sense. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 19 nov 2010, at 01:47, Jonathan Link <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Yes, I got an EMC pitch before I stepped into an EqualLogic. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Anders Blomgren <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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]<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. 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