Recent content by sam-sgc

I was not aware that the vnx platform was infinitively scalable without having to add disks. Oh wait, with the vnx you must add disks and swap controllers as you grow.. Compellent is much more efficient at tiering and can also do raid at a block level instead of disks

I would pick Dell + Compellent every single time against UCS + VNX Superior compute platform, and superior storage platform ucs had too many firmware issue in the past.. and VNX is still behind Compellent Pretty sure pricing will be close to equal between both as well.

Nice.. the 8024F is FAST :-) we use it with the Intel X520.

Agreed on hyperv 3, so much better it's not even funny.

Nice r620.. They are beast!

We use Dell 8024F in lower end env and Cisco Nexus everywhere else. The 8024f are really good price vs quality.

why do you say that ??

q6600 is going out now :)

Details on the 5548 problems ??

around 31

I want to play too ! 588 Core ( no HT) 105,000Ghz 3.95 Petabyte Ram Hyper-V Baby :cool:

we compared all scenarios raid-10 fat , raid-5 fat, raid-10 thin and raid-5 thin of course..Compellent is using all his drives..so a write coming in will use 100+ spindles..even for a small 100gb lun. with EMC, it would write on only 8 or 16 drives max. you can try to simulate the...

We currently have 4 EMC CX4, and we decided to start purchasing Compellent since last summer. I currently have 1k+ spindles on Compellent. Compellent is so much better, it's not even fair. Their reporting is miles away from Navisphere analyzer.. and their Co-pilot support is the best...

which gadget is this for system monitoring ? very nice.

super clean now..since power cords are not installed !