Thanks Martin I am waiting confirmation from Dell that we can use our existing shelves and disks but i think that is true as we have been told it is a more cost effective solution as far as being able to upgrade.. Obviously this leaves HP out of the question.
FC is working well for us and whilst i do love the idea of cheap sata disks for our non prod and low end storage requirements i am not sure that SATA will provide the iops, throughput maybe, to sustain our database servers and mail servers. Thanks for your info. Greg ________________________________________ From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: San Recommendations Greg, will the new SAN allow you to reuse your existing shelves or disks? I'm not sure if you were alluding to that or not, but obviously if you can, that would be a huge advantage. Also, FC rocks, but don't think that ISCSI can't handle your enterprise applications. Especially with 10GB Ethernet out there. SATA is also starting to gain a foothold there as well. I'm still not 100% sold on the later, but its moving up. It also makes for great archival storage. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: San Recommendations Guys We are in the process of updating our aging and nearly out of warranty Dell CX300 SAN. We were looking at the CX3-20 as we currently use FC disks. The CX3-20 would allow us to use FC and Sata with ISCI shelves. The SATA/ISCSI will be handy for our non production and non critical requirements. We have now started to look at HP because they are trying to appease us and i would like to know if anyone has any recommendations on HP san models. This office has about 250-300 users with a pro/non prod requirement for potentially 100tb or near of space. We would also like to preferably keep our FC available for the exchange, sql and oracle use that is our core business. Fwiw the majority of our servers are broken into vmware ESX hosts (prod and non prod) Be interested to hear anyone's thoughts. Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
