[TriLUG] [OT] iSCSI SAN recomendations

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

You hit it on the head! Their volume resizing options amongst other
things won me over. When you get into other things like replicating to a
different geographical area ....NetApp makes itself known! 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of David Brain
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:54 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] [OT] iSCSI SAN recomendations

Hi,

On 8/15/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> > Coming from someone who's implemented both EMC (CX300 / CX700), and 
> > NetApp (FAS270c / FAS3020), I'd have to say you'd be better off 
> > going with NetApp for a few reasons:
>
> I completely agree with this, having been in both EMC and Netapp shops

> in the past.  It works, it works very well, is easy to learn and easy 
> to integrate into your shop, and comes at a fair price.
> --

Yes, we went with NetApp too - currently have a 3020 with ~4TB attached.
We did some fairly extensive research into both NetApp and EMC, and from
what I could see NetApp looked to have a the far simpler setup and
interface.  However it did appear that the EMC box allowed a lot more
very low level config options - which might be important if you have
'special' needs.  However we really didn't need that, and in some
respects the NetApp was considerably more flexible (for example the out
of the box ISCSI support and some of the volume resizing options).

Also my experience with their  support has on the whole been very good.

David.
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