I'm going through the same thing myself. I'm still leaning towards a company called Silicon Mechanics. They use "off the shelf" hardware with proprietary firmware. The only bad thing is that they only have single-controller models. That being said, you can have several in an HA cluster so that if one goes down, you have the rest to pick up the slack. I'm looking at getting like 3 of them for under $30K (iSCSI, of course, as we don't have any Fiber Channel infrastructure) and hooking them up to a tape library (which will likely cost as much as the SAN project! J)
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAN Solution Hey guys, I am looking for a SAN solution for our environment. Currently we are a software company developing software for O&G industries. We're running about 25 VM's in an ESXi infrastructure at about 100GB each. QA tends to make and break VM's on a regular basis. We also want to consolidate data for backups, VM's, user data, and Shadowprotect laptop images. We're currently looking at the Dell/Equalogic solutions around 3-5TB. Anyone have any recommendations? Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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