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New SAN Purchase Questions
The OP mentioned in his post he doesn't really need SAS drives and my response was in regards to that. Obviously the performance on SAS compared to SATA is much better. Reliability wise SATA 10K RPM Enterprise drives are almost as good as SAS. -
Does this sound right? FC or iSCSI SAN
Awesome ! I did hear from a fellow co worker that with HP the issues is you can't use off the shelf HD's. Do check on those. He was unhappy about this as they ended up charging arm and leg for it ! Do check it out ! -
Does this sound right? FC or iSCSI SAN
Isnt MSA2000 discontinued by HP ? Otherwise the config looks good. -
Does this sound right? FC or iSCSI SAN
I just found this that should give you an overview on WUDSS http://www.ironsystems.com/istorage-IPDATA-WUDSS-series.asp http://www.ironsystems.com/istorage-IPDATA-WUDSS-Features_Benefits.asp -
Selecting iSCSI SAN
check these units out too ..http://www.ironsystems.com/Buy-IPDATA-Appliance.asp -
Does this sound right? FC or iSCSI SAN
I would suggest you to stay away from 10GbE, there are lot of driver related issues going on in the market. Give it another 1-2 months before you jump on 10GbE. Also if you are a Windows house, try going the WUDSS SAN/iSCSI storage route. Just my 2 cents. -
New SAN Purchase Questions
While N series and Equallogic are viable options, they also require $$$. If you are looking for something that is reliable and could work for you out of box I would suggest look at WUDSS platform by Microsoft. WUDSS is an enhanced version of WSS. I think Microsoft currently recommends 4 vendors...
