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HP EVA3000 and EMC CX300
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We're looking at a SAN solution for hosting about 8 servers for now and possibly adding a few more next year. The server are fileservers and a MS Exchange server with ~ 2000 users. The fileservers will be for about 3500+ concurrent clients. We're looking at a HP EVA3000 or an EMC CX300, both equipped from start with ~14 drives, 146GB 10K and we'll be adding 10+ more next year. Now there is a rather big price difference between the EMC CX300 vs HP EVA3000, anyone care to enlighten me why the EVA3000 would be much more expensive? Have anyone compared or used equipment from both suppliers? ================================================== === Janåke Rönnblom SKERIA Utveckling AB (Teknous) Assistentgatan 23 931 77 Skelleftea (Sweden) ----------------------------------------------------- Phone : +46-910-58 54 24 Mobile : 070-397 07 43 Fax : +46-910-58 54 99 URL : http://skeria.skelleftea.se ----------------------------------------------------- |
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Check http://www.storageperformance.org/ it's free and
independant - unfortunately there are no EMC products there, don't know why. Rene Jan?ke R?nnblom wrote: Hi! We're looking at a SAN solution for hosting about 8 servers for now and possibly adding a few more next year. The server are fileservers and a MS Exchange server with ~ 2000 users. The fileservers will be for about 3500+ concurrent clients. We're looking at a HP EVA3000 or an EMC CX300, both equipped from start with ~14 drives, 146GB 10K and we'll be adding 10+ more next year. Now there is a rather big price difference between the EMC CX300 vs HP EVA3000, anyone care to enlighten me why the EVA3000 would be much more expensive? Have anyone compared or used equipment from both suppliers? ================================================== === Janåke Rönnblom SKERIA Utveckling AB (Teknous) Assistentgatan 23 931 77 Skelleftea (Sweden) ----------------------------------------------------- Phone : +46-910-58 54 24 Mobile : 070-397 07 43 Fax : +46-910-58 54 99 URL : http://skeria.skelleftea.se ----------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------ **** Complex Systems tend to fail in complex ways **** ------------------------------------------------------ |
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On Thu, 06 May 2004 11:42:14 -0700, Jan?ke R?nnblom wrote:
Hi! We're looking at a SAN solution for hosting about 8 servers for now and possibly adding a few more next year. The server are fileservers and a MS Exchange server with ~ 2000 users. The fileservers will be for about 3500+ concurrent clients. We're looking at a HP EVA3000 or an EMC CX300, both equipped from start with ~14 drives, 146GB 10K and we'll be adding 10+ more next year. Now there is a rather big price difference between the EMC CX300 vs HP EVA3000, anyone care to enlighten me why the EVA3000 would be much more expensive? Have you actually been quoted by a reseller or HP? Retail prices are generally higher than what they actually go for on the market. However, the EVA3000 is considered a mid-range storage product and the EMC CX300 is entry-level. I'm not familar with the features of the EMC CX300 but I'm assuming that the major differences in price are because the array's are targeted for two different markets, thus the specs and features of the EVA3000 are geared for a high level of use. http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...555&l=en&s=biz http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/midrangestorage.html -- Jake Roersma |
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On Thu, 06 May 2004 23:52:07 +0100, HV Biker wrote:
On 6 May 2004 11:42:14 -0700, (Jan?ke R?nnblom) wrote: Now there is a rather big price difference between the EMC CX300 vs HP EVA3000, anyone care to enlighten me why the EVA3000 would be much more expensive? The CX300 doesn't support EMC's MirrorView application - which is used to replicate data from one Clariion to another. HP's equivalent, BusinessCopy, will run quite happily on the EVA3000. In your situation, you may never want to remotely replicate your data - and if you did, there are software tools to do it independently of the disk array. EVA's BusinessCopy will only replicate on a single frame. For replication between EVA's you need to use Continous Access. -- Jake Roersma |
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Jake Roersma wrote in message ws.com...
Have you actually been quoted by a reseller or HP? Retail prices are generally higher than what they actually go for on the market. However, the EVA3000 is considered a mid-range storage product and the EMC CX300 is entry-level. I'm not familar with the features of the EMC CX300 but I'm assuming that the major differences in price are because the array's are targeted for two different markets, thus the specs and features of the EVA3000 are geared for a high level of use. Yes, our prices has come from a reseller which did a "bid" for this equipment against HP. They are also aware that they are competing against DELL. |
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