SANs - where are people spending their budget?

Spammeh

Spammeh

Spammeh

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Hi All,

Just wondering where people are spending their budgets SAN wise at the moment. We're due a refresh on our old HP LeftHand P4500 3.6TB nodes and are looking around at various vendors such as NetApp, EMC, Dell, etc.

Any change in vendor will mean a gradual change over as we have 5 HP Lefthand nodes in total but we will replace these gradually as the maintenance expires.

If we were sticking to HP then we'd probably go for a 14.4TB option, a couple of those in a new cluster probably, but for me, the lack of dedupe etc makes me want to go elsewhere.

I noticed the NetApp offerings use SATA disks as opposed to SAS disks - seems a bit bizarre to me! Just wondering your opinions on it - whose worth looking at, and who aren't worth the time?
 
Its used for our live environment, so no backups etc will be on it. Ideally it will have good performance, but things like dedupe are a must for us really. Management as easy as left hand would be good.

Looks like EMC are worth looking at. Has anyone used this nimble?

We're probably looking for 2 nodes (for network raid - assuming most do this?) and costs below £25k inc support. Are we priced out of the decent end of the EMC / Netapp products then?
 
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