We currently have about 5 servers, each running the free VMWare server with 3-4 Virtual Windows Servers each.
We want to consolidate these to a single ESX server, and possibly add a second one for disaster recovery.
Questions:
1) Is iSCSI fast enough to run a VM box or should i get FC?
2) NAS or SAN (do NAS's come with FC, or iscsi only?)
3) What brand/model would be recommended? I like HP servers for the most part, but I am open to any options based on price & performance/support.
4) This may be better suited for the VMWare forum - does mirroring software (we currently use HP OpenView Storage Mirroring on our fileserver) work with VMWare? We want two VM Boxes, so if the first one fails, we can failover to our DR box with little or no downtime/data loss.
Thanks,
Andrew
We want to consolidate these to a single ESX server, and possibly add a second one for disaster recovery.
Questions:
1) Is iSCSI fast enough to run a VM box or should i get FC?
2) NAS or SAN (do NAS's come with FC, or iscsi only?)
3) What brand/model would be recommended? I like HP servers for the most part, but I am open to any options based on price & performance/support.
4) This may be better suited for the VMWare forum - does mirroring software (we currently use HP OpenView Storage Mirroring on our fileserver) work with VMWare? We want two VM Boxes, so if the first one fails, we can failover to our DR box with little or no downtime/data loss.
Thanks,
Andrew