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OlgaSAN
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Contributor

what you guys use for production vm storage?

i mean explicitly not labs / homes but something you roll in the office you don't own yourself Smiley Happy

would you put into production some free solution with allowed commercial use (no eula violation! ) but with community only / limited vendor support?

what would be a game changer for you? say going freenas (free) -> truenas (paid) upgrade?

tnx!! Smiley Happy

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JLackman
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We use large enterprise systems like EMC VNX, EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, NetAPP FAS, and HP 3PAR SANS.

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Anjani_Kumar
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We Normally use HP 3PAR, HP EVA etc in our environment.

Please consider marking this answer "correct" or "helpful" if you found it useful. Anjani Kumar | VMware vExpert 2014-2015-2016 | Infrastructure Specialist Twitter : @anjaniyadav85 Website : http://www.Vmwareminds.com
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MBrownWFP
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Enthusiast

Multi-member EqualLogic SAN

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unsichtbare
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Expert

We use exclusively Dot Hill on production systems, with our most critical workloads running on one of several true auto-tiering Dot Hill 5000 Series 10Gb SAN.

It is always about passing the buck in IT, and especially Infrastructure. A colleague of mine once said: "nobody ever got fired for recommending a best-of-breed Enterprise SAN," even when that device is way too expensive and un-obtainium for your company.

I truly admire Openfiler as a open-source SAN solution! Configured properly and run on real server-grade hardware, Openfiler can keep up with the best of them. The question becomes: Are you willing to risk your job on an open-source system you recommended?

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williambishop
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Hitachi, IBM, and EMC.

I would never do a "free" storage for production environment in a critical arena. In a non-critical arena? Yeah, possibly, provided I had decent BC-DR strategies in place.

--"Non Temetis Messor."
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joergriether
Hot Shot
Hot Shot

EQL621x and Pure Storage FAx.

Now for the free stuff (without guaranteed service contracts): In testlabs: Yeah - free stuff heavily in use - in critical production systems: NEVER.

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