SANs

Deathwish · 15 Dec 2008 at 18:36

Hi,

We are going be be getting a nice shiny SAN as soon as we choose a brand/model. Just wondering if anyone has any opinions on the following:

HP EVA4400
IBM Nseries 3600
Hitachi AMS 2100
Dell Equalogic PS5000XV

Top three are FC, Dell is iSCSI. Looking at putting Exchange onto it initially, then using it later for Virtualisation.

Any comments / opinions / ideas are welcomed

Deathwish · 15 Dec 2008 at 22:12

morfmedia, that's good to know as it could be the one we purchase. Any more info on it would be appreciated.

Shaz, we don't have the budget for a CX4 (We checked). And yes the Nseries (NetApp) stuff is excellent but software is costly.

We are looking to get a single shelf for now, with either FC or SAS disks for our Exchange 2007 setup. We will be going virtualising next year so will be adding more capacity.

Deathwish · 16 Dec 2008 at 16:45

Is the 3600 really limited to 1Gbps with FC ? They say 4Gbps.

Deathwish · 17 Dec 2008 at 20:54

I don't know really, this is our first SAN

Looking for anything such as "Oh, watch out for X" or "Make sure you get Y".

At the moment it will be a Fibre SAN, with Cisco 9124 switches, with only the Exchange server attached to begin with. And the management server. Looking at getting a single tray filled with SAS 15k rpm 450 GB disks. When we go VM we will get more obviously

Deathwish · 18 Dec 2008 at 19:43

Interesting info, thanks guys

As I said in the initial post, it will be for Exchange first then later for VM.