Hi
Thank you to all the replies in my last post regarding setting up a ESX VM Environment for a maximum of 20 virtual Servers.
As we have always been a Dell shop I am being pushed in their direction and have been quoted for a Dell/EMC AX150i and a CX300i.
From the perspective of total Disk space I can not see us getting anywhere near the AX150i maximum of 6TB so logic says that this should do for us. However I am told that the CX300i will give us an infinitely better performance because of it's fiber channel architecture.
Have forum members had good a experience with these SAN's. Should we opt for the faster CX300i? or will the AX150i be perfectly OK for what we want to do? Or should I really look out side of Dell/EMC at the Equallogic Iscsi SAN's which I can see from these forums are very popular.
Driving some of this is the fact that ideally we would like to get everything from one shop. However it has to be right and if people consider that the Dell products are not right I would appreciate there comments so as we can make an informed decision.
Another determining factor in our choice of SAN will be that we intend to use some of its available storage to migrate about 750GB worth of Department and user data from an old PowerEdge 740 NAS box that is currently our Primary file server.
We will also use some more space for a SQL database. However the SQL database is not particularly busy.
All comments and suggestions appreciated. I am quiet new to this and still getting to grips with what I need to do.
Kevan