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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

John773 wrote: @Martin Openfiler doesn't support scsi3 reservations. Not all iScsi is the same. SanIQ is pretty similar to EL in management and features. LH requires replication for a no single point...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

KOOLER your speaking my language now.The VSA team is miles away from EMC, and the tech behind it is actually well suited for big data management, I expect great things from them.DH, it depends on the...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

I don't see any tech behind VSA. Even a script kiddie can prepare Linux+IET or Nexenta based VSA. Should take him maybe a day. If he's a real slow guy. What big data management it's good for?...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

KOOLER, your in troll territory now :)The VMware VSA is running NFS for the presentation layer, but of you really want to see what the backend replication and data management is running strip apart the...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

John773 wrote: KOOLER, your in troll territory now :) The VMware VSA is running NFS for the presentation layer, but of you really want to see what the backend replication and data management is...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

KOOLER wrote: John773 wrote: @Martin Openfiler doesn't support scsi3 reservations. Not all iScsi is the same. SanIQ is pretty similar to EL in management and features. LH requires replication for a no...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

We need to go to coyote ugly with him next time or is he banned from dirty six?

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

Hi all, I've a little case for you. I'm a storage administrator architect and integrator since 4 years now. I'm used on many systems on the market like, Pillar Data Systems, NetApp, EMC, IBM DS...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

"We'll use some deduplicating backup software on top of it."Are you doing dedupe on the wire or post processing?How much data and what is your window to ingest and process?What is the dedupe system...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

LukX wrote: I've a little case for you. I'm a storage administrator architect and integrator since 4 years now.        This very clearly should be its own thread.  This is not actually related to the...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

"What does EL what LH doesn't what can LH what EL doesn't can. Our needs are just synchronus and asynchronus replications, other features wont be used for backup purpose." The key thing the EQL offers...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

VNXe  from EMC is Way better than EQL or HP.  It offers unified storage, easy management & set up, great replication, starts at 10k!  if you are using VMware, deploy the VNXe: - 1. NFS works...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

Steve I like being able to use more than six drives on a pool for performance reasons. Dedupe is file level only so it's pretty useless for backup/VTL purposes, their thin provisioned performance...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

Blithespirit wrote: "What does EL what LH doesn't what can LH what EL doesn't can. Our needs are just synchronus and asynchronus replications, other features wont be used for backup purpose."...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

Scott Alan Miller wrote: Blithespirit wrote: "What does EL what LH doesn't what can LH what EL doesn't can. Our needs are just synchronus and asynchronus replications, other features wont be used for...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

  John773 wrote: Steve I like being able to use more than six drives on a pool for performance reasons. Dedupe is file level only so it's pretty useless for backup/VTL purposes, their thin provisioned...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

The problem with NFS at scale is your limited to the ports on a single controller head per share. Until we move into pNFS, your not going to see symmetric active/active NAS controller heads. As for the...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

  John773 wrote: The problem with NFS at scale is your limited to the ports on a single controller head per share. Until we move into pNFS, your not going to see symmetric active/active NAS controller...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

you can add more than 6 drives with the vnxe. you can add as many as you want...just in increments of 5, 6, or 8 with the VNXe....just when you add drives you put it into an existing pool not a new...

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Gah, Lefthand SAN or Equallogic, any thoughts.

as far as NFS you can deploy that on VMware and utilize the de-dupe feature. just add a switch if you are concerned with throughput. VNXe NFS dedupe is file based. Your VMDK's will have to have...

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