Have a look at P4000 too. Block only so if you want CIFS and NFS they don’t do it without a NAS head (which is really just a Windows 200x based server).
They are fairly cheap though, and the scalability/architecture is interesting. From: Chad Leeper [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 19 November 2010 15:02 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: First Steps into the SAN Arena +1 for Equalogics. They just work and they are constantly adding new features and tighter integrations with VMware and Hyper V. If you're looking at the NS line I would definitely talk to Dell about Equalogics. Are you planning on utilizing the CIFS or NFS features? If not, look at the CX4 line as they support iSCSI and Fiber Channel. I agree with Anders that the Celerra interface is not the most intuitive and is overly complex. However, I believe they're moving from Navisphere and Celerra to Unisphere which combines both interfaces into one that can manage all of the Clariions. There's apparently a lot of integration with Unisphere and VSphere. Haven't had a chance to play with it yet. I was in the planning stages of upgrading our CX4-960 to FLARE 30 (required to upgrade to Unisphere) but apparently there's a couple of critical issues so EMC is recommending we hold off until the hotfixes are released sometime in December. - Sean On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Anders Blomgren <[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]" <[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? 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