[CentOS] Need SAN suggestion

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Thu Nov 23 18:55:54 UTC 2006


On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:30:07AM +0200, Mindaugas wrote:
> 
>  Hello,
> 
>  It is not total off-topic since almost all connected servers will be RHEL 
> and CentOS. :)
> 
>  We are considering to purchase new storage system. The most probably we 
> will be choosing between HP (EVA6000), EMC (CX3-20C) and Hitachi (similar 
> model).
>  iSCSI connection is also required.
> 
>  What are your experienced with listed systems? What to avoid? What ot 
> expect?
> 
>  Now I just know that sequential read/write preformance on EVA is poor. :)
> 

Check out Equallogic products: http://www.equallogic.com

They have really nice iSCSI SAN products.. I can happily recommend them. 
Stable, reliable, fast, scalable, easy, and good support.. that means not
cheap :) but well, those other choises you mentioned aren't either. 

-- Pasi



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