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Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
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From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: 31 January 2011 19:49
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
I've spe
buying some bits to build a basic VM platform so that we can get
> rid of some old rack servers here.
>
> Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we
> just use for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI
> SANs vs FibreChannel SANs? We
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Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
I think I just get stuck staring at the pretty line graphspretty
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> *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
> *Sent:* 31 January 2011 16:51
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> *Subject:* RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
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et rid
> of some old rack servers here.
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> Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we just
> use for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI SANs vs
> FibreChannel SANs? We are planning on having two physical hosts (probably
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-Original Message-
From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
On Hyper-v vs. ESX/ESXi my take has
On Hyper-v vs. ESX/ESXi my take has always been that vsphere is more mature,
and if your hardware is on the HCL you just drop in the ISO and away you go.
With Windows you might get lucky "out the box" or you might be having to
download Broadcom NIC drivers (and teaming software) or Intel NIC dri
uary 31, 2011 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
iSCSI will work just fine for hosting a VM environment, as well as some other
workloads.
If you already have a FC infrastructure, then that's not a bad reason to go
there, but iSCSI is very matu
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From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: 31 January 2011 17:02
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
In my opinion, and my experience with ESXi, there's nothing to do in the
console anywyay...
What things are you thinking a
nagement
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> *From:* Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
> *Sent:* 31 January 2011 16:51
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> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: iSCSI SANs vs Fib
yperV vs ESXi – can’t say much for HyperV as I’ve no real experience
> with it, but I do know firsthand that EQL does work *very* nicely with
> ESXi.
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> Jim
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> *From:* Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 31, 2
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> *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> *Sent:* 31 January 2011 16:26
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> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
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> I have 3 MD3000/3200i SANs and they work wonderfully. That being said I
> found that while th
, January 31, 2011 11:35 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
+1
Seems lots of folks who have existing FC environments might be tempted to
continue down that path, but if you don’t, and you’re looking at a primarily VM
environment, ISCSI would probably fit
e
> market has put me off. Saying that the cost of the FC based setup puts me
> off even more J
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> Olly
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> *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> *Sent:* 31 January 2011 16:26
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> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
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bandwidth (which you
probably don’t).
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
I have 3 MD3000/3200i SANs and they work wonderfully. That being said I found
that while the
:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
Not a direct answer, but another shared storage option you could consider for
that setup is an MD3XXX.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Oliver Marshall
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi Chaps
Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: 31 January 2011 16:13
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
Hi Chaps
We're buying some bits to build a basic VM platform so that we can get
rid of some old rack servers here.
Being new to decent SA
can get rid
> of some old rack servers here.
>
> Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we just
> use for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI SANs vs
> FibreChannel SANs? We are planning on having two physical hosts (probably
> Del
d a basic VM platform so that we can get rid
> of some old rack servers here.
>
> Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we just
> use for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI SANs vs
> FibreChannel SANs? We are planning on having two ph
Hi Chaps
We're buying some bits to build a basic VM platform so that we can get rid of
some old rack servers here.
Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we just use
for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI SANs vs
FibreChannel SANs? W
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