You should look at all the vendors out there, including software based ones, and then decide what you need. Personally I like Netapp, especially with vmware, but I have also used bare solutions like DRBD w/ISCSI and Starwind on 2003/2008 servers both work pretty well (drbd is a replication tool that can marry on top of IET). You can also find SAN solution providers (I have one here in Boca) that sells Netapp, IBM's, Lefthand etc and can really help you decide whats best instead of hearing all the sales rah rah from each vendor.
You can get s-ata drive SAN's for probably a decent price, depends on what you can live with. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN solutions Well, according to the sales guy, a few years ago Hitachi decided they wanted to start making SANS for the SMB market and started producing SANs with no frills. pretty bare bones storage, but with replication on-board. J Although he didn't *say* it is sounds like there are certain pre-configured packages that they offer and that's it. In case anyone's curious they are called Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100. I'm looking at 6 Terabytes in a RAID 6 configuration with dual controllers and on-board replication (still to be determined if it replicates *everything* or just the changes!) and installation, and 3 year nbd warranty for just over $21,000. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN solutions +1 ASB Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _____ From: Kevin Lundy <klu...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:01:44 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: Re: SAN solutions Assuming these are HDS - you need to make sure and also get all the management tools priced. That is one thing I discovered with HDS a couple of years ago - they don't include anything from a s/w perspective. And at the price below, I'm not sure it is HDS. Unless they have come out with an entry level line of products, I don't think you can get what you describe for any where near 20k. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:56 PM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: Ahh. Got a sales guy who used to work for CDW who thinks he can hook me up with two dual-controller SANs, including on-board replication for a hair over $20K. That's for about 6 Terabytes. I'll ask for more info in that case. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 3:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN solutions Hitachi (HDS) makes some awesome SANs. One of the tier 1 providers. Tier 1 price as well. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: Just wondering if any of you have heard of NexSan? What about Hitachi?? Any thoughts on either of these as a SAN vendor? I'm still trying to find someone who'll really "wow" me with their product and give me what I need for a price I can afford and get Management to sign off on. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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