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SAN Storage solution in combination w/ Server 2012 R2 (HYPER-V)

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Hello everyone,
We are currently in talks with 2 storage vendors (IBM and NETAPP) in order to replace/expand our current SAN storage and finally make the move to a virtualized environment (HYPER-V).
For the NETAPP side, they proposed a FAS3220 for our main location and a FAS2240 for our DR location, both running Clustered ONTAP 8.2. For the IBM side, they proposed a couple of V3700's (under SVC).
I'm aware this isn't the place to discuss these things in depth, but could anyone who has any experience w/ both solutions in combination w/ Server 2012 (R2) and HYPER-V recommend one solution over the other? Or is anyone in possession of a feature list for both solutions?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
With Kind Regard,
L.
- Edited by elaurens Monday, October 14, 2013 3:46 PM
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Hello everyone,
We are currently in talks with 2 storage vendors (IBM and NETAPP) in order to replace/expand our current SAN storage and finally make the move to a virtualized environment (HYPER-V).
For the NETAPP side, they proposed a FAS3220 for our main location and a FAS2240 for our DR location, both running Clustered ONTAP 8.2. For the IBM side, they proposed a couple of V3700's (under SVC).
I'm aware this isn't the place to discuss these things in depth, but could anyone who has any experience w/ both solutions in combination w/ Server 2012 (R2) and HYPER-V recommend one solution over the other? Or is anyone in possession of a feature list for both solutions?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
With Kind Regard,
L.
- Marked as answer by Alex LvModerator Friday, October 25, 2013 7:00 AM
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Hi,
The hardware have so much trait, but for the Hyper-v basic requirement and the more convenience maybe the following article may be help you make the decision.
The virtual Fiber Channel feature - Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831413.aspx
Hyper-V Storage
Hope this helps.
Alex Lv
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Hello everyone,
We are currently in talks with 2 storage vendors (IBM and NETAPP) in order to replace/expand our current SAN storage and finally make the move to a virtualized environment (HYPER-V).
For the NETAPP side, they proposed a FAS3220 for our main location and a FAS2240 for our DR location, both running Clustered ONTAP 8.2. For the IBM side, they proposed a couple of V3700's (under SVC).
I'm aware this isn't the place to discuss these things in depth, but could anyone who has any experience w/ both solutions in combination w/ Server 2012 (R2) and HYPER-V recommend one solution over the other? Or is anyone in possession of a feature list for both solutions?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
With Kind Regard,
L.
- Marked as answer by Alex LvModerator Friday, October 25, 2013 7:00 AM
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First, the question was never about NFS support, it was about support for hyper-v from Netapp or IBM Storewize. For Hyper-V, Netapp does support iSCSI and Fibre Channel which has nothing to do NFS nor NFS is an interface for the SAN protocols. You are repeating what people used to say 8 years ago when Netapp began to offer SAN, that it was a SAN on top of a NAS. People said thay they were crazy because of virtualizing a storage solution, but guess what? Everyone is doing it now after Netapp grew to be a 6+ billion company. One more thing, clustered ontap 8.2 also supports SMB3 for Hyper-V 2012.
Since there will be a disaster recovery site with a 2240 it would also have to be running Clustered Ontap to support snapmirror (thin replication, dedupe aware). With snapdrive and snapmanager for hyper-V you can automate consistent inline backups as well as replication and disaster recovery tasks.
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First, the question was never about NFS support, it was about support for hyper-v from Netapp or IBM Storewize. For Hyper-V, Netapp does support iSCSI and Fibre Channel which has nothing to do NFS nor NFS is an interface for the SAN protocols. You are repeating what people used to say 8 years ago when Netapp began to offer SAN, that it was a SAN on top of a NAS. People said thay they were crazy because of virtualizing a storage solution, but guess what? Everyone is doing it now after Netapp grew to be a 6+ billion company. One more thing, clustered ontap 8.2 also supports SMB3 for Hyper-V 2012.
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NetApp is still a filer inside with 8.2 as NFS v4 and now SMB 3.0 do map directly to WAFL file structure and iSCSI/FC LUs are just a files on WAFL partitions. Everyone is doing DAS and virtual SAN now :)