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Benefits of SAN
Hi, friend of mine is quoted around $20k for a SAN kit to be used in a new brokerage.
Are there significant advantages in using SAN versus going with regular 15k rpm drives in a RAID 10 setup?
The office will have two application servers and one database server (2 physical machines + vmware)
Are there significant advantages in using SAN versus going with regular 15k rpm drives in a RAID 10 setup?
The office will have two application servers and one database server (2 physical machines + vmware)
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andyalder, apologize for the big delay in responding. meant that all servers will be virtual, hosted on two vmware hosts.
The vmware images would be saved in the SAN.
The only requirement from our vendor is to have 15k rpm drives in the SAN for performance reasons, and the main objective is redundancy
The vmware images would be saved in the SAN.
The only requirement from our vendor is to have 15k rpm drives in the SAN for performance reasons, and the main objective is redundancy
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thank you very much, all of the feedback in this thread has helped enormously.
Would a fiber channel interface be a big improvement in the HP P2000?
I understand that FC will have bigger bandwidth but does it justify the price jump?
Would a fiber channel interface be a big improvement in the HP P2000?
I understand that FC will have bigger bandwidth but does it justify the price jump?
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Does that mean two physical machines running Windows or Linux natively plus a 3rd server running VMware with some guests on it?
If so the main benefit of a SAN isn't in use - you're not clustering so you don't need shared storage. The minor benefits such as snapshots, remote mirroring, dual controllers probably isn't worth it. You won't get any speed benefit from having a SAN rather than direct attached local disks, in fact it's almost always slower when both have the same number/type of disks as the SAN just adds an extra protocol and bit of wire to hop through.