@wtdrisco said in Dell EqualLogic PS4100:
@nikade Thank you.. I have checked around it is hard to really say. I have DELL ENTERPRISE CLASS CERTIFIED BY DELL SSDs, same writing as the SAS 600GB - they say Enterprise Pro on them though.
But interesting even after doing a reset 4 times, when I put back in the original drives, all the previous configurations showed back up. The older IPs and setups. Did not realize that was stored on the harddrives??????
I put the original drives back in and reset the unit. it completed the reset all green lights and at the log in. Will see how it goes from here.
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my questions.. I really appreciate it. When this gets fully running, I will be using DELL Compellent SC2020 with flash drives... that is what the VMWare is on at the moment.
They need to be "Equallogic" certified to have that specific piece of firmware on them, else it wont work im afraid.
Yeah the disks contain the configuration, thats why you're able to migrate to a "bigger" Equallogic box by just moving the disks.
We're using Dell PowerStore as our SAN and we're really happy with it, using NFS to serve storage to our XCP-NG hosts.
Dedup ratio is 6.7:1 AND we get the benefit of thin provisioning thanks to NFS.