RE: New SAN Selection Question

2008-06-30 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
I was just going to say this. Xiotech has some really great technology, and integrates with ESX as well if not better than all the others. Tim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New SAN Selection Question

RE: New SAN Selection Question

2008-06-29 Thread gsweers
only do 1 Raid Type across all of the disks. Not a problem with the perf it puts out in most cases, but something to be mindful of. Greg From: Jeffrey Showen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: New SAN Selection Question

RE: New SAN Selection Question

2008-06-29 Thread Martin Blackstone
e for deduplication, so ask if your vendor offers dedupe technologies. From: Jeffrey Showen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: New SAN Selection Question I'm looking for a methodology to evaluate new Storage Ar

Re: New SAN Selection Question

2008-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Showen
Jeffrey Showen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* > > 06/29/2008 06:57 PM Please respond to > "NT System Admin Issues" > >To > "NT System Admin Issues" cc > Subject > New SAN Selection Question > > > > > I'm looking for

Re: New SAN Selection Question

2008-06-29 Thread Mike Sullivan
We recently purchased a new SAN and it came down to Dell EqualLogic and Lefthand. Typically, Lefthand would win the price war but we were lucky that Dell had just purchased EqualLogic and was closing out the PS100e's so they beat Lefthand by a pretty good margin. Both have their pros and cons and i

Re: New SAN Selection Question

2008-06-29 Thread jeff . wilhelm
7 PM Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" To "NT System Admin Issues" cc Subject New SAN Selection Question I'm looking for a methodology to evaluate new Storage Area Network solutions for our enterprise environment. We have tight power, weight, and su

Re: New SAN Selection Question

2008-06-29 Thread Kurt Buff
We just purchsed (they're sitting in boxes on our server room floor, right now!) two 4Tb Lefthand units. For us, it came down to ROI, failover and integration with Windows/ESX. We'd also considered Datacore, and they were close, but the numbers worked for Lefthand. ROI was a bit more complicated th

New SAN Selection Question

2008-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Showen
I'm looking for a methodology to evaluate new Storage Area Network solutions for our enterprise environment. We have tight power, weight, and support requirements and have narrowed the field to 8 vendors based on a variety of these (and other) threshold requirements. The challenge now is that the