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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 ??

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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 !

Racking Done ! and our Pillar:

We have some CX4 and CX3. We looked at the VNX for like 3 seconds...no real tiering..no thin provisionning...out Really happy with Compellent so far. racking is completed...pics soon..

I think I'm not helping with the current supply problem of HDs :)

at a large Exchange Hoster

I really like them. Still have 3 EMC SAN..but they are not in the same league at all. We also have a Pillar and a bunch of Powervault.

Adding some drives to our 2 current systems 180 450Gb Sas 15k and 100 2Tb NLSAS I'll take some pics of the final install..

hmm some racking to do tomorrow..

Wait..what ? Can you share some details ?

well..your messing with their cold aisle..that`s why. some colo location are really picky about this. In our DR site, we can't even install a switch backward if it doesn`t have reversed airflow. So I'm using some APC organizer with a pass-through. typical of tier-3 and tier-4 DC.

wait what ? you've never worked on one ? so your opinion is based on EMC training and salesrep ? I manage 4 fully loaded CX4 in prod right now.. so I think I know how to work with them. what I did is point out some flaw in the VNX lineup. I never said EMC was crap..actually..their VMAX is...

Just sharing some fact that me not be known by everyone currently San shopping..Far from useless...it's not like you can switch San vendor easily. I don't hate Emc...in fact, their vnxe serie is really good...and could be the best offering at this price point.

don't get me started on EMC...their offering with the VNX is so far behind other vendor it's not even funny anymore. By adding disks to a storage pool..you must at least double up the original number..otherwise you will create the biggest hotspot you're ever seen.. and even if you do it...

I have 5 servers now running with E7-2850 with 128Gb at work. They are monsters !

Hope your not planning on doing any kind of thin provisionning with those..otherwise you'll want to kill yourself very quickly. I'm currently kicking my EMC out of the door because of poor performance. Compellent is the new king :cool:

that's what I'm saying. I'm using my 8gb fiber..and already 5Gb of my 10Gbe link. I'm not against it at all. I'm just saying is it not for everyone just yet. Once the bandwith goes up...I'll be all over it. Believe me..it would be so easy to have only 2 cables per server !!

call me old fashioned..but I still prefer them separate. Unified Fabric is not gonna do any miracle if your already maxing your links. when it's on 40gbe ethernet..it's gonna be a different story.

Server core with Hyper-V role make simply no sense at all. you need to pay for the license..and if you're using the standard edition..then you're limited on RAM and you can't do any clustering Hyper-V Server R2 FTW !

Backup exec with the hyper-v agent would be ideal then. It works really well.

I've posted something like this on my blog. http://samnadeau.com/?p=66

A Md3000i for home use ? Wow I'm jealous... Was it expensive ??

since your new server is already running 2008 r2. I would recommend Hyper-V

sorry I don't have the bios in front of me... I used a Y cable..connected to the cdrom power cable.

i use custom powershell script to export my vm every night..works great !

you have to enable it in the bios first. I'm running an intel ssd on mine.

what do you use for shared storage ?