How good is iSCSI - Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i for 20 ESX hosts environment?

[Jain]

How good is iSCSI - Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i for 20 ESX hosts environment ?

Is there any better alternatives to this ?

Cheers,

~ Jain

[karavinds1]

Hello Jain,

MD3000i is not a bad choice. But supports only upto 16 hosts. You may have to go for an additional storage. You can also consider a PS4000/PS6000.

Though MD3000i supports RedHat I am not sure of how compatible it would be with ESX servers. Refer these links for further details.

http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/storage/pvaul_md3000i/pd.aspx?refid=pvaul_md3000i&cs=555&s=biz

http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/storage/storage-equallogic-ps4000e/pd.aspx?refid=storage-equallog...

http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/storage/storage-equallogic-ps6000e/pd.aspx?refid=storage-equallog...

Regards,

Aravind K

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[AndreTheGiant]

Note 20 hosts are probably a lot of hosts for a single storage.

Try to understand space requirement (to see how many disks you can have) before.

Maybe a couple of Equallogic (one PS6000 and one PS40000, one SAS 15k and one SATA) could be a good solution to have a good scalability and cover both cases for perfomance and disk capacity.

Andre

[Jain]

Thanks Andre & Aravind

~ Cheers, Jain # VCP 4