On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:57 am, Les Mikesell wrote:
nate wrote:
Bo Lynch wrote:
Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to.
Depends on the hardware, ideally esxi, though it is very picky about hardware.
And you should budget for it, storage will be a big concern if you want to provide high availability. A good small storage array(few TB) starts at around $30-40k.
Have you investigated any of the mostly-software alternatives for this like openfiler, nexentastor, etc., or rolling your own iscsi server out of opensolaris or centos?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com _______________________________________________
No I have not, but now that you mention this I will definitely look into these. Thanks again for all your help and info. This has been a greta discussion. Bo Lynch