I've seen a number of issues with them honestly. Performance issues aside...
1) Their support is absolutely useless. If your production S500 goes down on a Saturday morning, you may not get it back up until Monday as they do not employ Tier 3 support on the weekends. 2) The filer panics and reboots when a volume hits 85% utilization. 3) Any changes made outside of the 'StoreVault Manager' GUI software are not supported. Even though there is a command line, you can't do anything in it and expect it to be supported. I could go on, but those are my biggest complaints. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Well tell us why! jlc From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use The S500/S550 series does use SATA drives. We use them in our test lab, but I would no longer consider using one for production. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Manager of Operations | Azaleos Corporation | T: 206.926.1945 | M: 540.322.7980 You rely on Exchange. We keep it running. From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Doesn't that use SATA drives? The MD3000i we purchased uses SAS drives. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Hmmmm, I can get the S550 for over half of that cost with more space.. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: What Equallogic, seriously? I was looking at PS5000E for like $26,000, 2TB single controler config. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Andy Shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: You couldn't handle it. Shook From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Man, I need to get some of that... On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Andy Shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Yep and just sent you something off-list... Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use Equallogic is cheaper then an S550? I am seeing ~5k for an S550 w/o drives? You sure? Thanks! jlc From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use JLC, Look at Equallogic. Better IO's and cheaper than S550's. <IME> If you need a referral to the partner I used to get the primo pricing, let me know. Shook From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use I need some more IO and don't have time to roll my own solution as I cant afford the testing interval. Looking at some cheap Netapp S550's right now. Anyone got any experiences/reco's they can share? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
