Im a fanboy for similar reasons. Ill also admit we are a NetApp VAR, but I get to eat my own dogfood, so it’s the shiz.
From: Robert Cato [mailto:cato.rob...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN Storage I will be the NetApp fanboy. I love my filers, why? Dedupe - I am getting about 33% space saving on my CIFS shares. This number will increase now that I have upgraded to a more recent firmware release and can combine volumes. Snapshots - I am keeping 6 months of snapshots that allow for easy/fast data retrieval, at a cost of less than 5% of volume space Replication - I am replicating between two sites, it only replicates the deltas. Nightly replication takes less than 5 minutes. I have created a share on the remote site for a read-only copy for the people traveling between sites. Simplicity - They just work. I need to rebuild my VMs on NFS and from what i hear 50+% space savings is the norm, 80% is not out of the question. Their software options can get rather expensive. The dedupe is free, almost everything else is a cost item. You need to decide which options you need, everything is a-la-carte. Robert On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Paul Hutchings <paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk> wrote: The 20xx offer FC and iSCSI standard unless I’ve misunderstood (switch cost aside of course)? The NAS thing, other than seeing a potential benefit in NFS, isn’t of much interest – I’m struggling to see a benefit running CIFS from a NAS rather than doing what we do now and having a VM as a file server? One thing I am keen on is, as much as possible, keeping it simple – the old “if I’m not around” scenario. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: 30 August 2010 20:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage Their feature licensing is expensive… FC connectivity for VMWare is cheaper on Dell/EMC, and for NAS connectivity, front-ending the EqualLogic boxes offer’s more bang for the buck. -sc 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. 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