Some variables to consider: Size of the environment Applications to be housed in shared storage Utilization of applications above.
That being said, I'm very happy on my EqualLogic PS5000. It might even have a bit more power than we need, but at the time we bought ours some of the other solutions for the SMB market weren't ripe... I'll be evaluating either a Drobo or Synology unit as a secondary/backup array... On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Oliver Marshall < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chaps > > > > We’re buying some bits to build a basic VM platform so that we can get rid > of some old rack servers here. > > Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we just > use for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI SANs vs > FibreChannel SANs? We are planning on having two physical hosts (probably > Dell PE710s running either Hyper-V or ESXi) with a lump of shared storage on > a SAN but we are at odds here as to whether we should go iSCSI or FC. > > > > Any comments or suggestions? > > > > Olly > > ~ 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
