File replication solution for CIFS share

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Thanks Paul,

I had look at the HP P2000 G3 FC 24x1TB SAS SFF Bundle-QR521B Which includes HP Storage P2000 Array System Snapshot 512 Software

it can provide me with 22.5 GB RAW disk space, it should comes cheaper than EMC VNXe (iSCSI) solution.

at the moment the data is on EMC CX4-420 Clariion which I'd like to decommision and the newer VNX 5500 will be used for performance hungry VM datastore instead of EV.

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Paul,

with the Snapshot, I assume that it is for snapshotting a LUN and then copy it across to the other remote P2000 G3 host ?

what do you mean to put that in a host ?
at the moment the EV server is in one of the ESX server as Virtual Machine.

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Whoops :-)

I think I have selected the wrong software for doing replication between the sites, so I guess this is the correct software HP Storage P2000 Array System Remote Snap Software ?

I just need to perform block level copy as it is more reliable than the DFS replication and cheaper than the EV Near Synch copy which uses OS based VSS vopy.

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Exactly, that is why I will need block level replication.

I wonder if the HP Left Hand SAN got its own replication software ?

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