DLINK recently bought out iStor, which is essentially Tier2 or 3 enterprise stuff. Good price, decent feature set, and reliable.
Great for small business or people getting their feet wet with SANs. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:54 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > Anyone here got anything good to say about D-Link's SAN offering? I have a > vendor who's recommending that. I didn't even know they *made* any > Enterprise equipment... thought they only made home-user equipment. > > > > From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 1:36 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: First Steps into the SAN Arena > > I've not heard anyone mention Pillar Systems SANs. I saw a pretty > impressive demo by them several months back. > John W. Cook > Systems Administrator > Partnership for Strong Families > > ________________________________________ > From: Sean Martin <[email protected]> > To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri Nov 19 13:30:14 2010 > Subject: Re: First Steps into the SAN Arena > I believe EQL has been providing storage tiering for a little awhile now. > We didn't get into that level of testing during our proof of concept, but > the consultant assisting with us with our VMWare POC had nothing but great > things to say about the capability. I think the recent addition to that > feature was support for SSDs. > > Here's a decent write up: > > http://review.techworld.com/san/3244996/dell-equallogic-ps6010xvs-review/?getDynamicPage&print > > - Sean > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Sean Martin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > EQL on the other hand inclues a lot of built-in functionality like > > snapshots, array-to-array replications, etc. without charging more. I > hear > > they will soon (or maybe have already) provide CIFS/NFS but that will > > require an additional array. I also hear that Dedupe and Compression are > > coming. > Sat through an EQL sales pitch earlier this week (they paid for > lunch in return, which is why I went). One thing he said was they > have or will soon have hierarchical storage, so the busiest blocks get > stored on SSDs, the next busiest on SAS, and the least used on SATA, > and automagically migrate blocks as demand changes. > > Standard sales guy disclaimer applies, i.e., his lips were moving, > so he was probabbly lying. > > -- Ben > > ~ 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 > > ________________________________________ > CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or > attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), > confidential and/or privileged material. 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