Great replies, thanks to all. We've been quoted over $35K (Canadian rubles).
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:31 PM, N Parr <npar...@mortonind.com> wrote: > I've had a PS5000 for a little over a year and just added a PS6000. Both > are running SATA drives. Unless you're going to be running highly IO > intensive DB operations then there's no need to even think about anything > other than SATA. I have our production and test SQL environments, 40 VM's > (3 hosts), file shares and a few other things running on ours. Our SQL > performance literally doubled when I moved the DB's from local SAS 15k Raid > 10 array to my PS5000 configured with Raid 10. When we got our second array > I reconfigured everything as raid 50 to get more space and performance > stayed just the same. Actually it improved because it's virtual storage and > adding a second physical array just added another 16 drives so now my data > is spread across all 32 drives and 4 controllers. If you don't mind me > asking what $ are they quoting you? > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:17 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Equallogic and Sata > > I run SATA on the PS5000. Two hosts, 8 VM's, exchange, SQL database, > file sharing. > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Steve Ens <stevey...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Anyone have experience running the SATA option in the equallogic P4000 >> series? My vendor is quoting me the exact same price for SATA (16TB) as he >> is for 7.2TB of SAS. I'll be running snapshots, virtual machines and such >> off the SAN. Any experience with these models? My other option is the HP >> P4000 G2 series. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
