Most will do thin, what seems more difficult AFAIK is reclaiming the space if you only need it temporarily, as I said though whether the price premium of NFS outweighs the "that's neat" I don't yet know.
Regards capacity, around 8tb of file server departmental data and around 2tb for VM's including SQL/Exchange. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 30 August 2010 17:29 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage I thought that was one of the benefits of virtually all SANs... the ability to do "thin provisioning." I know that LeftHand and virtually everyone else I've talked to offers that feature on their SANs. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage Can you expand a little on "migrating away from NetApp primarily due to cost"? Regarding the NFS question, only that I've heard a lot of good things about the flexibility NFS brings you and the fact you can expand and shrink on the fly so if you need 500gb for a VM to test something you can provision it and then reclaim it - obviously without the pricing I don't yet know what sort of premium we're talking. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: 30 August 2010 17:14 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage We are using Dell sourced EMC's for FC storage for our VM's. We are migrating away from NetApp primarily due to cost. We are spinning up EqualLogics as iSCSI targets for our file servers and backup-to-disk options. Is there something that makes you want to lean towards NFS as a mount technology? -sc From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAN Storage Looking for a little feedback folks. We've got a SAN replacement coming up in a few months. We're pretty much a vmware shop except where a service has to run on a physical server (IO cards etc.). The vendors I'm primarily looking at are Lefthand, Equallogic and Netapp, and possibly EMC since Dell can quote on an EMC solution as well as Equallogic. I've not had quotes yet, but so far my instincts are leaning towards Netapp, mainly because of the things I keep hearing about NFS for vmware, as well as the fact they seem to offer a lot of flexibility whereas Lefthand and Equallogic offer iSCSI and, well yeah, they offer iSCSI. Be interested to hear any experiences, especially around vmware and replication between SANs at live/backup sites (not a live failover site but a "this will take a little work but we have a copy of the data that's an hour old" site). ________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- You are currently subscribed to ntsysadmin as: paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/u?id=6571665.8ad7665239ae16a38c5289dd4 fc5236b&n=T&l=ntsysadmin&o=9079510 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-9079510-6571665.8ad7665239ae16a38c5289dd4fc52...@lyris.sunbelt-sof tware.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- You are currently subscribed to ntsysadmin as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/u?id=8142875.a9cf90b99baa17cb4fcf8293a59eb3b1&n=T&l=ntsysadmin&o=9079516 or send a blank email to leave-9079516-8142875.a9cf90b99baa17cb4fcf8293a59eb...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
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