Just curious how other people have setup their Equallogic SANS, I want to hear about various different designs, as everyone seems to have their own ideas about storage.
Here's what we currently have, I've kinda inherited it, so didnt set it up myself.
We have 5 PS6110X and XS members in a group for VMware, inside that group we have a single storage pool with our volumes. They aren't replicated anywhere else and there's no snapshots setup. I'm a little concerned that if we lose one member, then most (if not all volumes) will fail. I've been told by Dell that this is quite normal and the chances of a whole member failing would be extreamly low. We are using Veeam for backups, but it would still take a long time to restore back into a fresh volume if anything happened to the live ones.
How do you have your equallogic's setup, and does anyone have any tips or gotcha's in regards to these SANs?]
cheers
Here's what we currently have, I've kinda inherited it, so didnt set it up myself.
We have 5 PS6110X and XS members in a group for VMware, inside that group we have a single storage pool with our volumes. They aren't replicated anywhere else and there's no snapshots setup. I'm a little concerned that if we lose one member, then most (if not all volumes) will fail. I've been told by Dell that this is quite normal and the chances of a whole member failing would be extreamly low. We are using Veeam for backups, but it would still take a long time to restore back into a fresh volume if anything happened to the live ones.
How do you have your equallogic's setup, and does anyone have any tips or gotcha's in regards to these SANs?]
cheers