Ok... I thought I had my mind made up on the new HP EVA4400 series SAN using fiber channel hard disks for online storage and FATA for nearline storage.
I talked to a storage engineer from CDW today and he was trying to point me to looking at the new MSA2000 using SAS drives and going iSCSI instead of fiber. I asked his reasoning for this and he told me that since I was purely Windows OS, that he saw no need for the added expense of the EVA. He said Windows just can't drive data that fast and iSCSI at 1GbE would perform just as fast in Windows as having the EVA at 4GbE. He stated that if I would have said I also have Unix, AS400, etc... that he would have definitely gone the EVA route.
He said a few other things and it made somewhat some sense. Can I get a second opinion on someone that's been through this? I know is not always a black or white numbers game (1GbE or 4GbE), but I need some re-assurances.
Thanks.
I talked to a storage engineer from CDW today and he was trying to point me to looking at the new MSA2000 using SAS drives and going iSCSI instead of fiber. I asked his reasoning for this and he told me that since I was purely Windows OS, that he saw no need for the added expense of the EVA. He said Windows just can't drive data that fast and iSCSI at 1GbE would perform just as fast in Windows as having the EVA at 4GbE. He stated that if I would have said I also have Unix, AS400, etc... that he would have definitely gone the EVA route.
He said a few other things and it made somewhat some sense. Can I get a second opinion on someone that's been through this? I know is not always a black or white numbers game (1GbE or 4GbE), but I need some re-assurances.
Thanks.