I would also look at the Dell/Equalogics. I keep hearing talk about them being one of the best performing iSCSI units out there, even compared to the big dogs like EMC and IBM.
- Sean On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) < pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > We were looking at going with Dells Powervault MD3200’s andMD1200’s. But > we are open to other vendors/options. > > > > *Pete Pfefferkorn* > > *University of Cincinnati* > > *Email Services-Systems Engineer* > > *pete.pfefferk...@uc.edu* > > *(513)556-9076* > > * * > > > > *From:* sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:10 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations. > > > > Who is your storage provider? > I just attended an EMC presentation at the Netherlands Hotel in downtown > Cinci for 2010, DAGs, and storage. > Your storage provider SHOULD have a solution. > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) < > pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > > We are going to be moving to Exchange 2010. Basically we will have 14,000 > users and will allow users to go up to 4 gig mailboxes. We will have 4 > backends distributed between 2 on-site buildings for redundancy > (power/network). We will also be deploying a DAG configuration with 2 > copies per database. We are talking a ton of storage and the question > keeps arising about backups. I’ve heard with the DAG deployment, a backup > system isn’t really required because of the database replication, but my > mind keeps going back to the possibility of database corruption. Total data > to be backed up could be 192 terabytes, so it’s a large amount of data. I > was wondering what other large shops are using for that type of data. > Comments on backup strategies for 2010? > > > > *Pete Pfefferkorn* > > *University of Cincinnati* > > *Email Services-Systems Engineer* > > *pete.pfefferk...@uc.edu* > > *(513)556-9076* > > * * > > > > > > > -- > smsadm >
