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We are in the middle of picking a iSCSI SAN to replace DAS and use for a vitual enviroment. We have narrowed our selection down to StoneFly or iStor. We are looking at a StoneFly ISC-1601 or a iStor iS512 If anyone has any insight into these products or companys please let me know what you...

That is very true, has anyone worked with Datacore, what are your thoughts? As well what about Microsofts Storage server with iscsi target?

We are currently looking to get a SAN for our network and we are looking at a box from StoneFly it is an ISC-1620, has anyone used Stonefly and if so how does it work for you.

I am still working on getting some demo units, I have one from Dell on the way but Storevault acts like Canada is some crazy contry to ship to. Anyway I have found a few reviews that say the Storevault is slow to write when using iscsi and storevault confirmed that with the overhead of the S500...

That makes sense but how do I go about sizing a san for a virtual enviroment?

So how would I figure out what my virtual enviroment needs as far as IO and mb/s. So the spec sheet on the IBM system lists that it can do 64000 iops to the cach and 22000 iops to the disks how do they get these numbers?

So does that mean that NetApp will always preform 3 to 4 times better based on the same spindle count to other systems? As why do systems like the Dell MD3000i have 4 nic ports if their is no real advantage to having that many?

I have been doing a little more reading and I have a few more questions. I have been looking at an appliance from iStor and they have created a board/asic for the purpose of iSCSI. My question, Is NetApp the only company that has no wite penalty for the raid level, iStor also uses a virtual raid...

So you are saying that the 12 disk Raid DP Netapp will beat out a Raid 5 8 disk Raid 5 array on the Dell by 25%. So the SAS vs SATA would not make much of a difference? As the solution scales out and we add more like 15 drives to the Dell will the preformace match better.

We are working on moving from Local Server storage to a iSCSI SAN enviroment better storage use and Flexibility. I have been doing some looking and now have it down to 2 options and I wanted some feedback. Option 1: Dell MD3000i (iSCSI SAN Device) Dual Controler 8 x 300GB 15K SAS 4 x 1GB...