You could go out (if you wanted to) and get yourself a quad core box, with 16gb of ram, 8 or 16 SAS/SATA drives, and put on Nexenta Community edition . Works with vmware, failover NICS and everything . I would say after working for the past few years with Lefthand and Equallogic, I have no problem with Nexenta, all of them have odd little bugs, nothing I saw at the time did real time replication (other than Datacore and DRBD). We moved our snapshots now to Veeam so don't need that feature anywhere (Nexenta has it along with de-duping on the wire).
If not you can go with any of Nexentas preferred hardware vendors. The only issue I have with that is the vendor want(ed) to setup the device with hardware raid, and Nexenta recommends using the RAID-Z software raid for easier management and better performance (which I verified in my own sans). Outside of that its as good a product out there for the price point as anything else and with the free version @ 16TB of raw storage, that could suffice for probably *most* small/medium organizations. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: San recommendations Isilon...similar technology to Compellent. Very pricy too, but awesome tech. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Maglinger, Paul <pmaglin...@scvl.com> wrote: Depends on your environment, but +1 on NetApp. From: Craig Sterley [mailto:cster...@ostusa.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: San recommendations netapp From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: San recommendations If I was looking right now, in no particular order, I would be looking at: Compellent Nexenta Sun Unified Storage HP P4000 Nimble EQL Of course you haven't mentioned budget or what level of IO you ned to sustain, and the above range wildly in price and performance. Paul From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] Sent: 18 October 2011 02:02 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: San recommendations Recommendations.. Need about 12TB, ability to scale up, ISCSI for SQL/Exchange, Dedupe at the block level, Don't need replication at the moment. Got a quote on an EQ box, anyone else throw out recommendations. Thx Greg Sweers CEO <http://www.acts360.com/> ACTS360.com P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax ~ 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin _____ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com 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 listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
