I don't have any experience with FC, but I do love my LeftHand units - we started with two units and currently have three, with two-way replication between them. Not cheap, but cheaper than a lot of them, and they've been acquired by HP.
Never had an ounce of trouble with them - a RAM stick went bad on one of them, and HP hotfooted a replacement to me with no issues. No downtime, either, because of the two way replication. I shut down the affected unit as soon as I got the RAM, replaced the stick, fired it back up, and nothing so much as hiccuped. Needed to seriously update the software when adding in the third unit, but a support rep held my hand over the phone, and that went smoothly, too. Awesome stuff. Kurt On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:13, 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
