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How much is the emc upgrade from vnx 5200 to 5400
I feel that my current vendor is ripping me off so I am doing my research. For those people who did upgrade for vnx 5200 to 5400, how much did it cost you?
The vendor said they'll do a proc upgrade (which is an in place upgrade) or they can do a totally upgraded vnx 5400 solution and we just migrate data off from one system to another.
The vendor said they'll do a proc upgrade (which is an in place upgrade) or they can do a totally upgraded vnx 5400 solution and we just migrate data off from one system to another.
Rodney Barnhardt
Well, there are a lot of variables in that process. Particularly, if you purchased a 5400 and migrated to it. This varies from the number and types of drives (SSD, NL-SAS, SAS). If you have Fast Cache, and how much, etc. There are also other incentives that may or may not be available through your partner. I really do not think you can easily do a post on here for comparison. The last one we purchased, has 130 disk with 5 SSD's, and I think 50 SAS, and 70 NL-SAS drives. The cost was all combined with a larger project, but I think it ran about $291k. However, I do not recall if that number included any professional services.
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have you done data in place upgrade?
No I haven't.
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data in place(or DIP) upgrade allows you to upgrade vnx to the next level without getting new vnx system. DIP only works if you are in same vnx family. I believe the procedure is EMC upgrades CPU and source code. I just learned about it this morning.. The downtime is 6-8 hours depending on how big the load on the system is. If your system has 2 HBA, 2 iscsi modules, 2 SP, etc, then this should be fairly quick... The problem is, I'm having trouble finding out how much will that cost and what people think about the process. :(
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