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Vincent321
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Software SANs....

Colleague, wondering if someone is usin them (not test configurations desireably) ? If yes, then what exactly software you are using? I'd be glad to hear about your any experience.

Actually why I came up with this question is that we have got IBM DS3400, that appeared to be not compatible with ESX(I don't know about Hyper-V). We'd like to go for software solution(it seems to be more flexible), but I want to be sure in my choise. Actually I'm especially aware of something kinda Openfiler.

Thak you for now.

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I would suggest using solutions from StarWind . See the editions comparison at

What I like : it offers 2 Active-Active nodes at the same price as Openfiler does for Active-Passive ones.

The price for top-version is about 6.000 $ which is much cheaper than many others.

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HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance- is supported by VMware(Listed under HCL)

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-0261ENW.pdf

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I've only seen the Lefthand VSA in production environments so far....

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Thanks for the answears.

Lefthand is pretty good one, I agree, but the managing is not really easy and I wouldn.t call the price too low.

I would be glad if someone will recomend something else.

Appreciate for your help for now.

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I would suggest using solutions from StarWind . See the editions comparison at

What I like : it offers 2 Active-Active nodes at the same price as Openfiler does for Active-Passive ones.

The price for top-version is about 6.000 $ which is much cheaper than many others.

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Hello,

Interesting as I have an IBM DS3400 and it works just fine with ESX/ESXi. It is an Active/Passive device and I have the FC-SAN option but works just fine.


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Vincent321
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Thanks folks!

Especially to almartinez. StarWind is really very reliable software. as my test have shown.

Texiwill, I do believe that DS3400, that you've suggested to me, but it is active-passive, and there is no good for me.

Thanks again.

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