Adam,
I have not looked at either of these options. My existing use is:
- sata: 75% writes, 1600 iops with 3300 iops peak
- hybrid: 49% writes, 2000 iops with 5000 iops peak
I am looking for something that can grow my hybrid array and eventually
in a year or two take over all the Equallogic arrays as they are EOL by
Dell.
cheers,
ski
On 08/05/2013 09:23 AM, Adam Levin wrote:
Are you firm on SAN? Have you looked at either Tintri or Tegile for a
NAS datastore? The Tintri in particular is extremely easy to set up.
The Tegile is a bit more powerful (and does both SAN and NAS, your
choice). They also dedupe, which is great for VMWare. They both have
full plugin support and are pretty nifty hybrid technology (some NL-SAS,
some SSD).
What are your requirements for performance and capacity?
-Adam
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Michael Ryder <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Are you on ESXi5 or greater?
One thing to consider is whether your chosen storage supports VAAI
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1021976
I know that HP and EMC provide VAAI drivers for most of their gear,
across the past few years.
You may want to review whether there are VAAI drivers for the Nimble
that you select:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/436331?start=0&tstart=0
Mike
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a new SAN for my 7 node, 200+ vm vmware
cluster. I currently have a Dell Equallogic SAN with one hybrid
node (completely full so I need to add on more fast storage
space) and 5 regular nodes of which 3 are going to be EOL by
Dell in a year (for no good reason). I have narrowed my choices
down to EMC (because I already have a VNX for NAS services),
Fujitsu, and Nimble Storage.
From what I can see, the EMC and Fujitsu are your old school
style of SAN with lots of smaller disks to get the IOPs needed
and lots of flexibility (and more complexity) in setting them up
while Nimble is using software algorithms to get performance and
they focus on simplicity (kind of like the Dell). I am tempted
by the Nimble as I work in a very resource constrained
environment and simple is good, but I am a bit concerned about
how they will perform over a variety of workloads.
So I appreciate your thoughts on Nimble vs traditional SAN's.
What workloads does a Nimble not do well on? Are there any
special features to a Fujitsu or EMC VNX that would make them
better with vmware?
Thanks in advance.
cheers,
ski
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