Hi!
Can you share your storage selection experience for vSphere?
I'm interested in SMB and Midrange segments, from 2-4 hosts to 10-40 hosts (1-2 racks).
- vendor and model and why?
- what functionality do you require (tiering, flash-cache, replication, snapshots, clones, deduplication, compression, storage API (VAAI, VASA, PSA, VVOL))?
- SAN/NAS (FC, iSCSI, SAS, SMB)?
- drive types: HDD, hybrid SSD+HDD, all-flash?
First of all I'm interesred in storage functionality required by customers.
I make a resurch about problems and tasks related to storage in SMB and Midrange segments.
I need to know what functions (tiering, flash-cache, replication, snapshots, clones, deduplication, compression, storage API) are in deman and what are not used.