[TriLUG] OT: Recommendations on EMC/Dell CX3-20 SAN

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I have done a comparison between EMC and NetApp. In the end I found out
the following (to sum it up): 

- A tray of EMC disks were around 15k more than NetApp's.
- A NetApp appliance will allow you to eliminate file servers.
- NetApp's appliance enabled you to do iSCSI, FC (fiber channel), and
Ethernet.
- NetApp's appliance gave you more storage, and takes up considerably
less space when you make snaps of volumes.
- Resizing, upgrading, or adding to NetApp's appliances is considerably
easier than EMC's.

*If you're going to use this for a small to medium organization, you'll
definately see a lower TCO a lot quicker than you would going with the
CX320.

...for the last customer I worked for, I chose NetApp over EMC (even
though I've been through an Symmetrix (yup -- old SCSI connected),
IP4700 (ethernet), FC4700 (fiber channel), CX320 (fiber channel), and
currently use a CX700). They currently have an FAS270c, and they're
extremely happy with it.

Does this help? Is there any thing in particular you want to talk about?
Feel free to e-mail me offline (olsone at aosa.army.mil) or
(eric.olson at gmail.com), if you want to discuss this more in-depth ...or
leaving it in the thread is fine too. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Shawn Hood
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:52 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: [TriLUG] OT: Recommendations on EMC/Dell CX3-20 SAN

Hey guys,


A client of mine is evaluating SAN products.  One that is on the table
right now is the Dell (rebranded EMC) CX3-20.  Does anybody have any
experience with these, and perhaps how the rank up against offerings
from NetApp, HP, etc.?  I know this is awfully broad, but I don't have
time at the moment to delve into its applications.  Just trying to get
the overall sentiment for the CX3 series.

Shawn
-- 
TriLUG mailing list        :
http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member
Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/