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  • 1.  Looking for cheap NAS compatible with ESXi5

    Posted Jun 22, 2012 01:39 PM

    Hi,

    I was going through the HCL and everything NAS appears beyond my price reach. NAS is however NAS, what's the cheapest NAS solution (read priced on Ebay) that would work for me?

    Thank you. Reagrds,

    Kartik Vashishta



  • 2.  RE: Looking for cheap NAS compatible with ESXi5

    Posted Jun 22, 2012 01:41 PM

    There are cheap options in there. Look for units from Buffalo, Drobo or Iomega.



  • 3.  RE: Looking for cheap NAS compatible with ESXi5

    Posted Jun 22, 2012 01:52 PM

    Personally, I use a Synology DS411. Works great for my needs.

    If you want to see some real world stats on how it tested out for me, check out: http://www.thatcouldbeaproblem.com/?p=454



  • 4.  RE: Looking for cheap NAS compatible with ESXi5

    Posted Jun 22, 2012 02:08 PM

    I looked at the specs of the Synology DS411 and while I may be able to afford one - the specs do not mention NFS or iSCSI, I am essentially looking for a large amount of disk space to be presented to my Dell 1950 running VMware ESXi5, will this do the job? can I use it to run multiple VM's on?



  • 5.  RE: Looking for cheap NAS compatible with ESXi5

    Posted Jun 22, 2012 04:07 PM

    The Synology does both NFS and iSCSI.

    You can reasily run 5-8 VMs on it with the right drives.