Performance of Netapp S550 iSCSI SAN?

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I am new to the ESX/iSCSI field; I have a client running 12 EndofLife servers and we would like to move them to an ESX 3.5 enviroment. We have already decided on our hosts, 2 HP Quad proc QuadCore processors with 32gig RAM each.

Now were trying to figure out the storage side of things, I plan on running iSCSI but do not know enough to make a final decesion. We are looking for about 3TB of storage space and redunancy is a must.

I cannot find anyone running NetApps S500 series of SANs which leads me to believe it probably does not have enough IO to support a ESX enviroment.

Does anyone have any input on this matter?

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It really depends on what feature sets you want . There are people using S500 without any problems and you can check it out here for more details.

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Regards,

Stefan Nguyen

iGeek Systems LLC.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

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http://communities.vmware.com/thread/111937

Here is another article I found discussing the S500

Looks like its what im looking for! Thanks!