What do you recommend for a fast but inexpensive SAN for VMotion?

[antslarson]

Hi,

I am soon setting up another VMWare ESX 3.02 Intel Server and want to configure the two VMWare ESX 3.02 Intel Servers with VMotion.

What do you recommend for a fast, easy to setup, but inexpensive SAN for VMotion and another associated equipment, etc.

I'm needing to put this in my budget for 2008.

Thanks,

Anthony

[woodsp]

Hello Anthony,

we decided to buy the cheap SAN before buying the extra hosts for VMotion and after going out to tender, we decided upon an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN - models PS100e & PS300e. The performance we have seen is great and the cost was relatively low - about £60,000 in total, including installation/setup - although this is very straight forward.

Thanks,

Paul

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[anh]

Do you want a supported installation?

If yes, then i can recommend the IBM DS3400 storageunit. Its a 4Gbit FC supporting sata and sas-drives. About $10000 without disks and FC-switch.

If no, then buys a server the amount of disk that you want and install OpenFiler or FreeNAS as a iSCSI-target.

Regards

Anders Hansen

[TomHowarth]

It all depends on your budget, and what you expect. a cheap SAN would be an openFiler iSCSI, (free) just pay for hardware, but would you use it for Production, probably not.

you could go for a AX150 from DELL/EMC or one of the lower end equalogic or Lefthand, or maybe San Melody

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Kind Regards

Tom,

[moneill]

There are some very good offers on the IBM DS3400 in the UK, but delivery before end 2007 is a requirement.

Mike

[jonathanp]

Me too recommend IBM DS 3000 or DS4000 Series...

Very good product ... good support etc... supported...

Regards

Jon

[tonyholland_00]

Compellent SAN are cheap and very modular. I would recommend.

[BaesmanITM]

If you are looking for easy to setup, manage and fast and iSCSI is an option. Compellent and EqualLogic are both good choices.