What product are you using for virtual machines ?<br><br>I would suggest if you are "small budget" then a FC SAN is pretty much out so for VM's that leaves you ISCSI or NFS, both will give you good performance over GigE however (depending on the storage you decide to go with) NFS may give you some more flexibility at the filesystem level.
<br><br>Give us a better idea of your budget and your use case.<br><br>Nathan.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Slatem</b> <<a href="mailto:slatemfam@optusnet.com.au">
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Thanks for the advice and the link you provided. The inquirer url shows the exact device we have been quoted on, the given price includes 1 x 100GB and 6 x 750GB Seagate SATA Drives. At the moment we are undecided on the SAN VS NAS, what is your opinion on both considering we want to run virtual machines on them. Also if we went for the "Intel Storage Creek 2" what OS flavor would you recommend?
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<pre><font color="#000000">Mark,</font><br><br><font color="#000000">Do you need a SAN or a NAS?</font><br><br><font color="#000000">The info I have seems to indicate that you could run Linux on the Intel </font><br><font color="#000000">
box if you wished as it's really just a server with lots of drive bays </font><br><font color="#000000">at the front :-)</font><br><br><font color="#000000">Does the $10,000 include any drives? Is it the version with the RAID
</font><br><font color="#000000">controller?</font><br><br><font color="#000000">Here's a link to the release from the Inquirer:</font><br><br><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/04/16/intel-updates-storage-offerings" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/04/16/intel-updates-storage-offerings</a></font><br><br><font color="#000000">Hope this helps,</font><br><font color="#000000">P.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">BTW: I pointed my friend Casper at the Drobo, which runs Linux. They
</font><br><font color="#000000">are apparently producing an gigabit ethernet version to compliment the </font><br><font color="#000000">current USB2.0 version which has had good reviews. Casper contacted </font><br><font color="#000000">
Drobo about an Australian distributor - they said they're working on a </font><br><font color="#000000">240v version to satisfy global requirements. <a href="http://www.drobo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.drobo.com</a></font><br><br><font color="#000000">Silly American companies often save a few $$s by putting in a 110v only </font><br><font color="#000000">switchmode PSU... always bites them in the bum by delaying time to
</font><br><font color="#000000">market elsewhere in the world.</font><br><br><br></pre>
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