SAN Experiances, Hp AiO 1200 series, Nexsan
Has anybody got any information good or bad regards the HP AiO 1200 series of SAN storage products, or any real world experience with Nexsan products, specifically the SATAboy enclosure?
basically I need storage, but like everybody my budget is very tight, I've not got what you would call an "enterprise" to support, but we are a good medium size corporate, and the SAN will be used primarily for DB storage and possibly hosting the Exchange server data store.
I'm considering the HP AiO and/or the Nexsan products because for the cost and seemingly easy deployment options this would appear to be my best choices thus far,
I would like as much capacity as I can get really and the figure I am kicking around is about 12TB total,
must be iSCSI really as I am not going to be able to spend the money on HBA's for the servers that I need to connect to the SAN.
my pricing is going to be around the $17k mark, both Nexsan and HP fall in or thereabouts this amount.
so suggestions?
what have your experiences been like?
basically I need storage, but like everybody my budget is very tight, I've not got what you would call an "enterprise" to support, but we are a good medium size corporate, and the SAN will be used primarily for DB storage and possibly hosting the Exchange server data store.
I'm considering the HP AiO and/or the Nexsan products because for the cost and seemingly easy deployment options this would appear to be my best choices thus far,
I would like as much capacity as I can get really and the figure I am kicking around is about 12TB total,
must be iSCSI really as I am not going to be able to spend the money on HBA's for the servers that I need to connect to the SAN.
my pricing is going to be around the $17k mark, both Nexsan and HP fall in or thereabouts this amount.
so suggestions?
what have your experiences been like?
You really should be looking at SAS rather than SATA disks for databases and Exchange, the seek rate of SATA isn't generally good enough for databases.
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I should have been more clear, DB performance is not going to be an issue for us really, most of our data is pretty static but grows just not very quickly and reporting happens on a weekly rather than daily basis and SATA performance is drastically better than what we currently have on our collection of older hardware.
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SATA and SAS perform the same way however when it comes to performance SAS is any time better AIO 1200 series with your budget and SAS will fit into the environment perfectly.