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SAN buying time

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rsutoratosu

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Currently on a 3tb msa 2000 SAN iSCSI, is getting slow and we need 12tb ish. HP stop selling the expansions cabinets for theses so I figure Ill get something faster and supports larger capacity.

-Looking into dell equallogic vs hp 3par. But will also look at MSA 2040s
-Like it keep it iscsi but will take NFS if its available.
-Looks for at least 10TB but 12TB is sweet spot but will take 15TB if the cost is right.

Anyone using equallogic or the 3pars ? I never bought one but will take suggestions. I had netapps before but at this point, I think they'll be around 500k for the storage I need.

Will not do home grown system as this is for work.. Though I do have freenas running on less important vm without any issues.
 
Dell Equallogic usually provides some of the best bang for buck in this storage range (depending on the IOPs needed)

Do you have any idea what kind of IOPs figures you are needing?
 
I have three Equallogic arrays (2 4100s and a 6100) and have been very pleased with them. If you already have a Dell rep talk to them as they can get pretty aggressive with Equallogic pricing at end of quarter/year sales. That's what got me into mine and I've not been disappointed.
 
10k mix 60/40 read/write - Obviously if its higher at lower price, that be great 🙂

Thirdeye, are you using them on iscsi or nfs or something else ?
 
I have currently 3 EQL shelves but we are currently in the process of decommisioning them and moving all the data onto a Compellent array. If you have a Dell contact I would recomend that you look at both EQL and Compellent arrays and do some price comparrison. They EQL worked for us with some issues. Last year we where doing a Controller upgrade to the firmware code with dual controllers on a EQL shelf and during the upgrade when one of the controllers restarted the other controller went into a panic mode and basically took the shelf offline. This resulted in several TB of storage with running VM's on them being taken offline from one of or ESX Clusters. It wasn't a good situation and I had to have somebody go onsite and physically yank the controller cards snd reseat them to get the shelf back online. It kind of left a bad taste in my mouth for EQL storage. At one point we where running EMC, EQL and Compellent storage solutions but by the end of this year all or or storage should be exclusivelly on Compellent.
 
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