If a contractor, an anonymous call to the friendly neighborhood electrical inspector will usually guarantee they have to spend more than they were willing in the past...
...not that I would have ever done anything like that... :D
We got all of our Hitachi kit in this past week and I meant to post these. Pretty clean work by the Hitachi CEs. This is the HUS130 - Specs Here. I will post HUS110 Pics next week.
Per the specs:
Transceivers: 10 Gbps Ethernet LC-style pluggable (SFP+), SR (850 nm) or LR (1310 nm), hot-swappable Active copper Twinax SFP+ direct attach cables
http://www.brocade.com/products/all/adapters/product-details/1010-1020-cna/specifications.page
I would have had less reservation if it was not ALL of our production data migrating off the CX4. I just couldn't justify that to myself. It sounds like you have more storage diversity than us. I am sure that it would have been fine, but Murphy's Law is usually derived from IrishMLK's Law...
I am replacing a CX4-240 with the HUS130 and an AX4 with the HUS110. It was a mix of budget, technology, and overall impression of the companies. We looked at EMC, Dell, Nimble, Hitachi and Exagrid, but we definitely got the most bang for buck with Hitachi.
EMC just assumed that because...
We are getting our new Hitachi kit delivered on Monday. An HUS130 with ~72TB usable (10 200GB SSD, 42 600GB SAS, and 42 2TB drives) as the primary SAN and an HUS110 with ~40TB for D2D backup.
I will post pics when we get them installed.
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That is slick. We just got vSOM a little over a month ago and I haven't got to deep into it yet. This makes me think that I will be spending more time with it. Although, I am stuck with a Clariion CX4-240 until November when we will be getting either a Nimble CS460G-X4 with...
The two units at the top are converged UCS fabric extenders which are pretty much just stripped down Nexus switches.
As far as power goes, the chassis has 4 dedicated drops from the UPS and the FEX are powered by 2 Z-Line PDUs not pictured, both on separate circuits.
We will be...
Will post more pics of our VMWare cluster migration from ancient IBM x3650s to UCS B-series soon... Going from 8 IBMs to 4 blades and one of the blades will have more RAM than all 8 of the previous hosts combined! :D
But first, we need to add some FC ports to our CX4-240 with two of...
That is exactly why I bought it. Power savings over the SFF PC. I don't expect much in the way of feature/performance gain, but it would be a nice surprise.
As a side-note. I ordered the unit yesterday afternoon late and DoubleRadius will have it at my door probably before I get home...