Opinions on small SAN

[BruBoy]

Hi All

I'm looking to move my local storage onto a SAN (for three hosts).

Performance isn't that critical, I have around 4Tb of data on around 30 VMs (ESXi 5 / vSphere) that we mostly use for software development & testing. We want to use gigabit ethernet initially.

We've been pointed in the direction of an Equallogic PS4100E - does anybody have any experience of using this (or closely related) machines?

We've been quoted around £10k for a PS4100E 12x1Tb NL-SAS box - is that good value? 3.5" format is good as we can pull some of the 15k SAS drives we have from our servers and reuse them in the SAN.

Thoughts / alternatives welcomed.

Thanks

BB

 

[BruBoy]

Hi All

Thanks for the various replies - plenty to think about and varied opinions just as I expected!

I'd heard a few bad things about NexSAN but most people have heard a few bad things about most of the vendors...

Will get a couple more quotes and keep you posted.