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I am curious if anyone has an opinion on the future of VSA. Please keep in mind I am a one person IT show in Small/med business so my ability to visualize lareg installation is limited.
Things like:
How many have been sold? Are people who know about SANs excited about this or is it a novelty?
What with VI3i coming soon it seems like an excellent option instead of buying a SAN with hardware? Correct?
It seems to me, that it appears to be a "cheap" way to get a robust SAN infrastructure. Correct?
As it is "portable" from one ESX box to another it seems to be a good long term investment?
Thanks,
Bob
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| Interesting questions. I have been looking at VSA. I've downloaded it but didn't get a chance to install yet. I understand that having failover and replication are cool things, but besides that I'm trying to figure out why I would use internal storage as iSCSI storage for the virtual machines residing on the same ESX server, or is meant to be used as iSCSI storage for other standalone servers? I am curious how people are using this.
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Hi Team
VSA is the way forward for dissasociated Hardware from Storage, meaning you are not locked into any Vendor and there are no addiontional add-ons you have to buy as in other systems, it ships with everything.
Ethernet is easer to implement and troubleshoot than Fibre Channel for the average tech too.
A fully integrated RAIN SAN that acts in a peer-2-peer architecture allows systems to attain backplane limits in regards to performance.
The reason you would use ISCSI on your internal DAS is if you have multiple machines, see the other postings of mine with some test data.
http://vsaforum.lefthandnetworks.com/Topic114-13-1.aspx
If you wish to move your servers to new hardware, simply load a new VSA on the new ESX Server, replicate/sync the SAN. Shutdown you old server and start the servers on your new hardware, if you are using the Emboot solution as shown in this Forum, you can even PXE boot the servers on your new Hardware.
http://www.chelsio.com/solutions/pdf/10GbE_Blade_Performance_WP.pdf
10GbE shipped with 3.5 ESX
http://www.neterion.com/
Hope this helps
Reality is defined by the physical universe and your mind - "Its the second one that varies" :-)
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