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‎07-26-2010 01:43 AM

HP MSA P2000 G3 vs NetApp 2040

Hi.

I am looking to purchase our company's first SAN.

Two different companies have given me two different solutions.

One suggests an HP MSA P2000 G3 iSCSI G3 the other a NetApp 2040 iSCSI.

I'm pretty sold on the NetApp, however it is £40,000 more expensive and I'm told the HP will more than suit our needs.

We are a rapidly expanding media company, existing on DAS and physical servers.

I plan on virtualisaing our 18 servers, a mixture of database, file, exchange, source control and intranet.

The MSA has snapshotting, although I can't find any info on on it, how does it compare to NetApp's?

I've heard the MSA is faster, again I can't find the necessary info, but for an extra 40K it would be nice to know NetApp can match if not beat the MSA.

Can anyone fill in the gaps, any advice would be much appreciated.

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AntonVZhbankov
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‎07-26-2010 11:04 PM

NetApp has deduplication feature which will give you more effective usage of disk space. However you can just buy more disks for MSA for the same price and have more spindles, i.e. more performance.


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