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What is the PRODUCTION storage for your virtual environment?

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If your primary PRODUCTION storage is NOT already in this post, please add by replying. These will be used as the poll options later. Thank you!

Local storage (hard drives in hypervisor hosts)
Direct attached storage (external box that is NOT shared between hypervisor hosts)
Entry-level non-enterprise grade SAN (Drobo/NetGear/QNAP/Synology/Iomega/etc)
Free Software SAN (OpenFiler/FreeNAS/etc)
Paid-for Software SAN (Starwind/Datacore/NexentraStor/etc)
Cybernetics MiSAN / iSAN
Dell Compellent
Dell EqualLogic (PSxxxx)
Dell PowerVault (MDxxxx)
DNF Stonefly ISC/Voyager/USO
EMC CLARiiON
EMC Isilon
EMC VNX(e)
EMC VMAX
Fujitsu DX Series
Fujitsu Eternus
Fujitsu FibreCat CX/SX Series
Hitachi AMS/USP Series
Hitachi HNAS (former Bluearc)
HP 3PAR
HP EVA
HP LeftHand
HP P Series
HP StorageWorks (MSAxxxx)
IBM DS Series
IBM N Series
IBM Storwize (Vxxxx)
IBM XIV Storage System
NetApp E Series
NetApp FAS Series
Nimble Storage CS Series
NEXSAN E/I Series
NEXSAN Beast/Boy
Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
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Two Starwind nodes in HA-mode (10Gig sync). SSDs in node1, SAS in node 2 (fixed paths to node1, with node2 as backup)

20 SSD's and 32 SAS-drives. So no big environment.
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A mix of LeftHand clusters (both phisical P4000 and VSA), and Datacore installed on SuperMicro servers.

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Here's some other systems to be added (i don't use all of them personally but i have seem them in some environments)

Hitachi AMS / USP / VSP
Hitachi HNAS (former Bluearc)
Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

Open-E based appliance

Software SAN
NexentaStor based appliance
Openfiler based
FreeNAS


Hope it helps :)
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NEXSAN should be added :)

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We have a potential client with IBM XIV Storage System in production for vSphere 4/5.
Thanks.
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Nimble storage iScSI - 16 x faster than our emc ax & dell/equalogic psxxx series....love it!
And easier to manage, configure and monitor! 300+ customers and growing...check it out...www.nimblestorage.com
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Isilon (EMC) Scalable NAS
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IBM XIV
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We have used a variety of storage vendors, EMC, EqualLogic, and homebrew Open-e, but our current selection is Nimble. The performance is amazing, easily 5 times faster than any of the other systems. These guys have something really special.
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Two Hitachi USP!!
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Hi Anton,

in Germany we have many customers with IBM San Volume Controller SVC implementations.
Mostly used to build a 2 DR site active active Cluster with vdisk active-active mirroring.

As disk storage behind the SVC: IBM DS, HP EVA, Hitachi...
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Not often used but I know some companies that run their Database Servers under VMware with IBM ESS and DS8000
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Small customers and branch offices uses often Blade Technology with integrated shared Storage like:
IBM BladeCenter S (I implemented a lot of them with VMware in the field)
and some Systems based on a Intel Storage Server Balde concept for example Lynx CALLEO Datacenter Server 6049 from our partner transtec.
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Predominantly HP MSA2000i G1s and G2s, in 1Gb and 10Gb iSCSI
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NEM4EVER wrote:NEXSAN Beast Series
Beast is DAS (direct attached storage), right?
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Typicaly our customers run:
EMC VNX 5xxx serie (most of them 5100 or 5300)
DELL EqualLogic serie
Datacore SANmelody/SANsymphony-V
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