Yes, yes, yes ... I was supposed to post which SAN we chose last night. 1000 apologies.
I was dog tired when I left work so I turned off my phone, ate dinner with my wife, took a nap, and saw Superman Returns with a friend. (BTW, great movie!)
So anyways ... after what we feel was a pretty exhaustive research I did make the final decision yesterday and sent over a purchase order. Again, it was pretty close, but there were several factors that swung us towards one vendor over the other. I will elaborate on those in an upcoming post.
So without further delay ... the winner is ... <insert drum roll> EqualLogic <queue fireworks> <queue band> <insert fanfare glore> :-)
So in about a week we will have a sweet PS100E from EqualLogic spinning 14 250GB drives. 2 Cisco Catalyst 2960G switches (24 port Gig) are also on the way to create a robust redundant SAN network.
I'm taking today, Monday and Tuesday off to unwind ... then Weds back in the saddle in an attempt to play catch up with everything that got dropped in the past 2 weeks.
Stay tuned ... this project has lots more to go!
(congrats to Chris Marsden on correctly identifying EqualLogic as our choice. Chris is now the proud owner of 1000 bonus points!)
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