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Advice on choice of SAN. Equallogic or NetApp

Asked by asbowen in Storage Technology, VMware, Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: SAN, Dell, Equallogic, NetApp, VMware, ESX, MySQL, Exchange, storage

Hi,

We are currently undergoing a major redevelopment of our server / storage infrastructure, and are in need of some advice.

We currently have 9 Servers, including Exchange, MySQL, two domain controllers etc. We plan to Virtualise all of these onto two Dell R610s (Dual Xeon E5504, 24Gb RAM) running VMWare's ESX server.

We have narrowed the quotes down to two possible providers, however, the choice is going to be based on the chosen SAN. Both companies have had the data from VMWare's capacity planner on which to base their quote.

We also have a requirement to replicate data offsite so we would potentially be purchasing two of either SAN for Phase 2 (Disaster Recovery) development.

One company has come back with an EqualLogic PS4000E iSCSI with 8TB; 16x500GB 7,200 RPM Sata II drives.

The other company has suggested a Netapp FAS2040 with one shelf of 300GB, 15,000RPM drives and one shelf of 300GB SAS drives, giving approximately 4TB of storage capacity.

Having spoken to representatives from both EqualLogic and NetApp, we don't seem to be able to split the two except on cost.

We are now desperately in need of some advice, can anyone offer any suggestions that would make our decision easier. What are they like to live with, in your opinion are they suitable for our needs, etc. I can give more information about requirements if needed.


Thank You


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