Understood. I was just curious because we're about to purchase a couple of NS40s.
- Sean On 7/10/08, Greg Mulholland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No we didn't really have a choice. HP was the only option due to special > circumstances!! > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Sean Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Friday, 11 July 2008 9:20 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: San Recommendations > > > Greg, > > Just curious, did you look at the NS Series from EMC for your iSCSI needs? > > - Sean > > > On 7/10/08, Greg Mulholland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> We actually decided on a HP MSA 2000i. simply for our ISCSI setup. Looking >> at 20tb initially and adding another shelve later down the track, if we even >> need it. >> >> We will deal with our FC setup when our cx300 runs out of warranty.. >> >> anyone have any experience with the 2000i? >> >> Greg >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:34 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: RE: San Recommendations >> >> 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> ~ >> >> ~ 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> ~
