Hi All,
I'm looking for some advice on what good/bad points I should consider when buying a SAN for use with VI3.
The college I work for is investing upgrading back-end hardware, we are going to be using a mash-up of Sun v40z servers & HP C class proliants, all connected to a SAN, questions is should we use Fibre Channel or iSCSI. The SAN units we are considering are either an HP EVA4000 or an Equallogic PS3600X (http://www.equallogic.com).
We have been aiming for an HP EVA for the last year, but during the last month Equallogic have demoed their PS3600X unit & I was very impressed (not that I'm an expert regarding SANs).
So, I'm hoping that someone will share their experiences with different units (hopefully an HP EVA &/or an Equallogic) ![]()
I mean an HP EVA is a safe bet but, can an Equallogic unit really outperform an HP as they claim?
TIA
Danny
iSCSI against SAN comes down in my experience to whether you can a: purchase the iSCSI Qlogic HBA and b: whether you have the bandwidth and the ability to isolate the storage traffic from the LAN traffic on your network.
Personally I'm a SAN guy and predominately EMC FibreChannel, I know users that run happily on iSCSI but they have good LAN isolation and bandwidth.
I know a little about the EVA and it performs well people I have spoken to about equalogic tend to have gone there due to price rather than performance as a first reason, so I guess your budget will come in for scrutiny when it comes to making the final decision.
I used to work for HP and the EVA's are nice although now that I'm not there anymore i use EMC products, mainly iSCSI and if you can setup a network soley for iscsi traffic it's not bad at all.
I know for a fact that EMC support in storage surpases HP
