San ugrade old msa2012 , your advice
Dear All,
I need your advice please .
We currently have the following OLD SAN Storage:
1 x HP MSA 2012fc
1 x HP MSA 2312fc
Tot 12 TB disk
SAN Switches Brocade :
2 x HP StorageWorks 4/16
We are running VMware Vsphere 4.1 and we need to upgrade to VMware Vsphere 5.5 U1
Could you please tell me an updated configuration to the previously mentioned from HP? All must be VMware Vsphere 5.5 U1 approved in the HCL.
Thank you
I need your advice please .
We currently have the following OLD SAN Storage:
1 x HP MSA 2012fc
1 x HP MSA 2312fc
Tot 12 TB disk
SAN Switches Brocade :
2 x HP StorageWorks 4/16
We are running VMware Vsphere 4.1 and we need to upgrade to VMware Vsphere 5.5 U1
Could you please tell me an updated configuration to the previously mentioned from HP? All must be VMware Vsphere 5.5 U1 approved in the HCL.
Thank you
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Another option to keep using it in a supported configuration would to be to use it as the back-end storage on a NAS head, so you'd use clustered NFS servers to connect to VMware and this would be the NFS servers disks, then you'd need the MSA to be on the HCL of the NAS boxes but they wouldn't have to be on VMware's HCL.
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Thank you for the info .... I'll let you know the decision we made.
Bye
Carlo
Bye
Carlo
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thank you for your advice.
At the moment we saw that MSA2014 is a newer model compared to P2000. We also identified 3PAR as a possible solution to host our VSphere san.
Soon I will inform you about the decision.
Thank you for you both.
Carlo