Kasher_Khan
Limp Gawd
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Our current environment consists of the of the following
Hosts: Dell R710
Total CPU: 12 CPU (6 core per CPU)
Total Memory: 1 TB
Vmware Enterprise Plus 5.5
Total VMs ~50
Space: 8TB used out of 10TB available.
Current Storage: Dell Powervault MD3200 (24TB RAW).
Dell 6224 10/100 iSCSI swtiches
We are trying to upgrade our storage and have the following two options
Dell Compellent SC4020 (10 Gig)
6 x 400GB SSD, 6 x 1600GB SSD (6TB configured Tier 1)
24 x 1TB NL SAS (16.5 TB usable Tier 2) on SC2020
EMC VNX 5200 (10 Gig w Fast Suite)
3 x 100GB FAST Cache SSD 2 x 600GB 10K SAS
25 x 1TB NL SAS
We are either going to go with 2 Dell 4032F 10Gig switches or Cisco Nexus 5000 refurbished from the gray market.
There is also an Equal logic option on the table with a 6210XS (9TB SSD) and 6210X (32TB) usable. on the table but it is my last option.
All the above solutions have the same price (roughly 80K without any aggressive negotiation yet).
I am leaning towards the Compellent solution but would like to hear from others on what their thoughts are. I can't trust the vendors too much because they all lie a lot and our current infrastrucutre is not a good metric for demand cause other than capacity we really don't have that many constraints based on current loads. I can answer any questions there are.
Hosts: Dell R710
Total CPU: 12 CPU (6 core per CPU)
Total Memory: 1 TB
Vmware Enterprise Plus 5.5
Total VMs ~50
Space: 8TB used out of 10TB available.
Current Storage: Dell Powervault MD3200 (24TB RAW).
Dell 6224 10/100 iSCSI swtiches
We are trying to upgrade our storage and have the following two options
Dell Compellent SC4020 (10 Gig)
6 x 400GB SSD, 6 x 1600GB SSD (6TB configured Tier 1)
24 x 1TB NL SAS (16.5 TB usable Tier 2) on SC2020
EMC VNX 5200 (10 Gig w Fast Suite)
3 x 100GB FAST Cache SSD 2 x 600GB 10K SAS
25 x 1TB NL SAS
We are either going to go with 2 Dell 4032F 10Gig switches or Cisco Nexus 5000 refurbished from the gray market.
There is also an Equal logic option on the table with a 6210XS (9TB SSD) and 6210X (32TB) usable. on the table but it is my last option.
All the above solutions have the same price (roughly 80K without any aggressive negotiation yet).
I am leaning towards the Compellent solution but would like to hear from others on what their thoughts are. I can't trust the vendors too much because they all lie a lot and our current infrastrucutre is not a good metric for demand cause other than capacity we really don't have that many constraints based on current loads. I can answer any questions there are.