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Need High Availability SAN software

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We have extra older Supermicro servers and the CTO wants me to build him a SAN. It needs to have sync to another SAN (which we would also build) and HA/Failover in case the main controller goes down. So far I have found Nexenta Enterprise, Open-E, and a couple VSAs. The main purpose of the SAN would be ESX datasores.

I would love to know if there are other options I have not found.
 
HP's VSA works great especially if you already have HP SAN in your network, it all integrates nicely for replications or whatever to and from SAN and your vsa boxes. Expensive.

I'm looking at starwind iSCSI on windows as well. Also expensive.
 
Right now vSphere 4 is limited to a 2TB-512Byte max LUN size. vSphere 5 increases that to 64TB.
 
How much data have you got? How important is it to the company? How old are these servers? I would really think hard and fast about using "old servers" to hold mission critical data.

With the VSA's you carve out 2 TB disk images - maximum of 5 = 10TB maximum. They are only licensed for 10TB. Maybe they will change this now but at the moment the VSA is pretty much the same on VMware and Hyper-V.

Sanmelody is another software solution that has a reasonable name.
 
haileris said:
How much data have you got? How important is it to the company? How old are these servers? I would really think hard and fast about using "old servers" to hold mission critical data.

With the VSA's you carve out 2 TB disk images - maximum of 5 = 10TB maximum. They are only licensed for 10TB. Maybe they will change this now but at the moment the VSA is pretty much the same on VMware and Hyper-V.

Sanmelody is another software solution that has a reasonable name.
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There is no data yet, but believe me you are preaching to the quire about this project. I'll do the POC and when the time comes to buy licensing they will realize that for a few grand more they can have a real SAN from a Tier 1 or 2 vendor and the whole thing will go away.
 
Made me laugh :) Good luck.

To be fair, I was suprised to find out the HP4500 series (Lefthand) are DL servers or thereabouts, so it isn't as though server chassis aren't used in this role (though I don't like it personally). Its that "old" thing that scares me.
 
If you're planning to deploy Hyper-V then with StarWind you don't need to buy extra hardware. As unlike other solutions it can co-exist with Hyper-V on the same server inside parent partition so to build HA cluster you can have only two servers and not four. This one looks promising:

http://hyperv.starwindsoftware.com/two-node-configuration-for-hyper-v-using-starwind-iscsi-san

Unfortunately we don't use Hyper-V any more for production in any case (((

hotcrandel said:
HP's VSA works great especially if you already have HP SAN in your network, it all integrates nicely for replications or whatever to and from SAN and your vsa boxes. Expensive.

I'm looking at starwind iSCSI on windows as well. Also expensive.
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SANmelody is discontinued product. SANsymphony is the only one DataCore sells these days. Performance is fine but pricing is... Hm... Questionable )) As somebody had already mentioned below entry level EQL hardware can be cheaper.

haileris said:
How much data have you got? How important is it to the company? How old are these servers? I would really think hard and fast about using "old servers" to hold mission critical data.

With the VSA's you carve out 2 TB disk images - maximum of 5 = 10TB maximum. They are only licensed for 10TB. Maybe they will change this now but at the moment the VSA is pretty much the same on VMware and Hyper-V.

Sanmelody is another software solution that has a reasonable name.
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