I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Please hear me this time. If you do not nail down your requirements, vendors are certainly going to overwhelm you during the process. Once you have your requirements nailed down, it becomes fairly trivial to exclude vendors from your list. You're letting products/vendors drive your decision-making process instead of requirements. Until you switch your methodology to one based on your requirements you're doing yourself, and the people who've provided advice previously, a great disservice.
I say this from the perspective of having been where you're at. I know how overwhelming the process is, how confusing the jargon can be. My methodology, which I'm not recommending, was to implement an OpenFiler box play with the tech a bit, get my feet wet, I moved some services over to it, moved more services over, and then because of a suddent business requirement ended up moving mission critical services to the box, with the stipulation that this was a stop gap, and I needed to do something more robust in the future. Part of my requirements then became something that had support tied to it, since we were dead in the water if it went down. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:48 PM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com > wrote: > Ok, I’m 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 I’d 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 I’m 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.) > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Perception_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 > ~ 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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