The FAS2020 couldn't handle the load from our 8 ESX servers with about 70+
virtual servers running on them. Worse than that was the fact the FAS2020 would
go away for 3-4 minutes every Tuesday around noon. This would cause virtual
servers to crash as their virtual hard drives would stop working. NetApp could
never figure that one out, even after pointing out to them this aways seemed to
happen at the same time a memory scrub was running on the Fas2020.
Kevin
Maglinger, Paul wrote:
So why did you move away from the NetApp?
-----Original Message-----
From: System Manager [mailto:mgr...@whitman.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NAS/SAN
We just recently moved away from a NetAPP FAS2020 to an EqualLogic
PS6000. Very
happy with it so far.
Kevin
John Aldrich wrote:
Thanks for the info. I think I'll stay away from HP at this point,
especially after reading this! I'm leaning towards either a NetApp
offering or an LSI offering, depending on which is less expensive.
Unfortunately LSI doesn't do de-dupe. I've got two different
acquaintances who work for two different local vendors, one of which
is
the LSI vendor and the other is the NetApp vendor. J Gonna be hard to
figure out which one to diss. **sigh** Oh, well...
John-AldrichTile-Tools
*From:* Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
*Sent:* Monday, October 12, 2009 10:31 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: NAS/SAN
I was at the vmware forum the other day and netapp did a decent demo
on their new offerings with deduping backups, sql and exchange for
storage recovery. Also their app has a plugin for vcenter so you could
manage the SAN from the vi console which I thought was a nice little
bonus.
Up to this point we have been building SANS via basic servers using
either Datacore or Starwind software controllers. For other areas we
also use NFS for less required storage like file sharing etc.
My client just purchased 2 PS 6000's and I have another client who has
an HP-SAN and running 20 VM's on it ran it to a crawl so they are moving
into LeftHand after demoing it out.
The hp san was managed and I never laid eyes on it other than running
vmware benchmarks on it and it didn't fare too well, it was their entry
level product.
Starwind reports 3250 IOPS which is okay, but its memory usage masks a
lot of that if you get a server with a lot of ram then the disk i/o is
pretty good. Datacore does similar at a higher level (and price) but
still less than a hardware based SAN of similar size.
Im just learning about benchmarking SAN's myself (any tips
appreciated). I run DRBD/IET in my datacenter because I can babysit it.
I also have a Starwind server that does snapshot backups of all 4 of my
esx servers and it does it pretty well.
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