Ok good questions. Im looking for about 5 terabytes useable to start. I probably wont use half of that immediately, but I can use some of that for snapshots and growth. As for features, Im not sure what features are available, but some I know are available and are interesting to me are dedupe, ISCSI, snapshots, thin provisioning. Dedupe is in the nice to have, but not necessary category. Performance, well, to start with, this will be mainly an overgrown file server, but I plan on bringing email in-house, and the IBM rep suggested I might want to virtualize my two servers and put VMWare on them, as they are seriously under-utilized right now (our most used server is at like 15% CPU utilization, and thats running file/print/DC/DHCP/DNS/antivirus on the one box.) The IBM reps suggestions sound good, as far as virtualizing the servers, but not until I have a SAN in place. J Anyway, WRT the SAN, it will likely be the place where the virtualized DCs are stored, but they will be running off the existing hardware. The email will likely be Kerio Connect (pretty much guaranteed, if I have anything to say about it) and I dont think it uses a database. I talked to a Kerio rep last week and he assured me that having the mail store on a SAN is very well supported, so I have no qualms about that. Between redirecting peoples My Documents folders to the network (and by that, I mean a SAN) and email, I expect to use up ½ to 2/3 of the proposed 5 Tb.
John-AldrichPerception_2 From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN vendors John, what do you need? Capacity? Expansion? Features (now and potentially future)? Performance? From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 13 September 2010 17:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAN vendors Ok, Im still in the market for a SAN. I got an IBM rep trying to sell me one of their SANs (rebranded LSI Logic) and I have an HP vendor trying to sell me a LeftHand. On the one hand (no pun intended,) the LeftHand comes with pretty much everything I would ever want built-into the price. On the other hand, the IBM is a dual-controller unit and I can just add drives as I need them where with the LeftHand Id be adding intelligence each time I upgraded. There are pros and cons to each. I think both are similarly priced (although the LeftHand solution may be a bit more expensive up-front.) Not trying to start a flame war here, but Im getting overwhelmed here If both had similar capabilities, what would you recommend here? Anyone else I should be looking at in the Budget SAN range (<$30K for one SAN, including setup, maintenance, etc.) John-AldrichPerception_2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin _____ 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/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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