I am in the process of replacing the MD3000i units at work with a pair of Equallogic PS5000e units filed with 1TB drives.
The reason? Primarily the need for array to array replication (the arrays will be at separate locations and the MD3000i only does virtual disk copy within the array) and additional storage.
I'm not saying that my experience with the MD3000i has been bad, performance is okay with fifteen 146GB 15K drives (one hot spare, two seven-disk RAID5 disk groups). The MD3000i arrays have been used for SQL storage, but not for our standalone ESX servers.
The only real gripe that I have is the Storage Manager Client is pretty simple (I came from a NetApp shop BTW), but then again, for the targeted audience, it works.
The reason? Primarily the need for array to array replication (the arrays will be at separate locations and the MD3000i only does virtual disk copy within the array) and additional storage.
I'm not saying that my experience with the MD3000i has been bad, performance is okay with fifteen 146GB 15K drives (one hot spare, two seven-disk RAID5 disk groups). The MD3000i arrays have been used for SQL storage, but not for our standalone ESX servers.
The only real gripe that I have is the Storage Manager Client is pretty simple (I came from a NetApp shop BTW), but then again, for the targeted audience, it works.