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WillR3
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Best SAN for two R730XD and One R720 and future additions?

Hello,

I have been assigned to find a good SAN for our infrastructure at a reasonable price.  We had a consultant tell us what we need but I don't feel like what he recommended was what we need.  How do you have your environment setup?

I currently have:

2 R730XD - 2 quad network cards, 383 GB Ram, 6 TB Storage each.

1 R720XD - 2 quad network cards,96 GB Ram, 5 TB Storage

I want to add a SAN to this environment to leverage shared storage and my vCenter Standard license, and have room to add another server in the future.  I know I will need switches to connect the servers to the array.

Any help is much appreciated. 

Thanks!

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aleex42
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There isn't the "one answer" - there are hundrets of storages that will solve your needs.

Maybe NAS is also possible?

NAS for example:

* Tintri

* NetApp FAS

SAN:

* Fujitsu Eternus

* NetApp E-Series

* NetApp Solidfire

* NetApp FAS

Just a few examples for each Smiley Happy

-- Alex (VMware VCAP-DCV, NetApp NCIE, LPIC 2)
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