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from my experience in highend storage and SAN, hitachi is better solution than emc , i our case hitachi/IBM was cheaper and the management of SAN and storage and stuff isi way more flexible ... for example when we needed to format new LUN's on EMC box we never could do it ourselves we always had to wait for EMC guy with special *.ini file ... just my 2 c.<br />
afaik perfomance wise the hitachi was always in front of emc in our shop testing
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from my experience in highend storage and SAN, hitachi is better solution than emc , i our case hitachi/IBM was cheaper and the management of SAN and storage and stuff isi way more flexible ... for example when we needed to format new LUN's on EMC box we never could do it ourselves we always had to wait for EMC guy with special *.ini file ... just my 2 c.
afaik perfomance wise the hitachi was always in front of emc in our shop testing

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Hello All<br />
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we are currently looking at purchasing a SAN to visualize around 14 physical servers with about 3TB of &nbsp;used space on to 3 virtual machines using VMware esx.<br />
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we have contacted some resellers who have recommended two different SANS which are:<br />
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Hitachi AMS2100 with Brocade AMS 320 switches<br />
EMC AX4-5FDC with EMC DS-300B 8 port 8Gb switches<br />
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both seem to be around the same price and both fiber channel!<br />
<br />
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?<br />
also what would you personal recommend?<br />
<br />
Thanks for any help in advanced<br />
<br />
James <br />

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Hello All

we are currently looking at purchasing a SAN to visualize around 14 physical servers with about 3TB of  used space on to 3 virtual machines using VMware esx.

we have contacted some resellers who have recommended two different SANS which are:

Hitachi AMS2100 with Brocade AMS 320 switches
EMC AX4-5FDC with EMC DS-300B 8 port 8Gb switches

both seem to be around the same price and both fiber channel!

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
also what would you personal recommend?

Thanks for any help in advanced

James 


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