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  • 1.  HP P4000 Virtual SAN

    Posted Dec 02, 2010 10:32 AM

    Hello,

    Does anyone has experiense with HP P4000 virtual SAN? We do not have any SAN storage and we would like to step in to virtualization, we need SAN for vSphere. Does P4000 creates a (virtual) SAN from your local disks? Even if you have more hardware servers? I want to use 3 servers, the third in another room or building. I was wondering if anyone is using P4000 for their virtual environment.

    Thank you very much!



  • 2.  RE: HP P4000 Virtual SAN
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    Posted Dec 02, 2010 10:58 AM

    We sold and implement quite a number of P4000 Hardware and Lefthand VSA (Virtual SAN Appliance) for vSphere4 projects.

    1) Yes it makes your local HDD to be an iSCSI SAN that can be shared by other ESXi hosts

    2) Yes, even if the other hardware does not have Lefthand VSA or sufficient HDD space, you can have it mount via iSCSI to the initial host that Lefthand VSA is running

    3) As long as its gigabit with latency of less than 5ms, you're good to go ..


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