I'm very small time, but I like to think that after a little reading and pondering I can at least have a basic understanding around enterprise concepts, and why some things cost more. Sometimes, a lot more. But here I cannot. Can someone please enlighten me as to why there is a consideration to spend up to forty thousand dollars on replicating 150GB of data to two locations? This seems like such a completely small amount of data for such a price, even with having space for growth.
-- Mike Gill From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN solutions Well, I'm looking to off-load our storage to a dedicated storage appliance from our mirrored Dell servers. Currently we are using about 150 Gigs of drive space on the servers (again.mirrored for D/R purposes.) I am looking at using iSCSI to connect the servers to the storage appliance to share the files out as if they were on the local drive. My estimated budget for this is about $30-40K for a pair of mirrored storage appliances. I would like to have one of the devices at a remote location for D/R purposes. Pretty much everyone has said that they think that can be done, even over a 5 Mbit VPN. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN solutions What is the budget you working with (or you believe you'll be constrained to?) That might help your selection process. You basically need to indicate the desired functionality, and the extent of your budget. If they are in sync, then that will be better. If not, then a recalibration in one direction or another will be necessary, and then the solutions will come from that. ASB (My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:04 PM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: Yeah. but I have a feeling that the Compellent solution may be lower cost. J I got an MSRP on an Equallogic system. $42K for a 5 Tb useable system. No way I'm going to be able to afford two of those to do D/R. L John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN solutions Lefthand (Bought by HP) and Equalogic (bought by Dell) play in this space as well. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAN solutions Anyone know anything about a SAN manufacturer called Compellent? I just had a webinar with them and they seem like they're pretty good. They have separate drive chassis and controllers, with the controller being essentially a server class machine. Anyway, just thought I'd ask in here if anyone had any experience with them. John-AldrichTile-Tools No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.34/2462 - Release Date: 10/27/09 07:38:00 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.34/2462 - Release Date: 10/27/09 07:38:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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