Unless they are offering something out of the ordinary I would look at Nexenta's offerings, and just get support direct by either building your own or one of their channel partners. I think pogo makes decent stuff, and those new dual mobo nexenta boxes with the 10gb crossover looks pretty nice too. (I forget who makes them ... ) . Aberdeen boxes we picked up in December are decent, @ 8k , 5yr warranty, gold support w/ Nexenta (replication, snapshotting, compression, and de-duping licensed).
If your running sata its hard to get 16tb unless you are dropping 2tb drives so your spindle speed isnt going to be fantastic. Depends on your needs... I have 4 esx boxes at a client running an Aberdeen box Nexenta 3.04 w/ 8 1tb drives. It runs pretty well, 24 servers (sql, exchange, storage) for about 75 users .. That unit does 4 hr replication to a secondary unit over a 10mb fiber, it took a bit to get it going but seems to be working nicely now. -----Original Message----- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cybernetics san Anyone have comments about these folks. Got a call as I was leaving work on Friday and from the sales droid sphell, it sounds pretty reasonable. Off the cuff, 16tb for under $10k. Got a webex tomorrow and plan to do some reading later today, but would appreciate any advice from folks with experience. We are looking to move several vm's to a san for offsite replications and also high availability. May also move our SQL and Exchange 2010 databases to the SAN later on. Didn't see them mentioned when searching the list archives so I thought I'd ask. ~ 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
