topic Re: Purchasing P4000 VSA software in StoreVirtual Storage

Purchasing P4000 VSA software

Steve Bishop — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:15:12 GMT

I've got a few DL320s and was wondering if i purchase the VSA software is it the same has the P4300 (just different hardware)?

Is the P4300 just a DL3** G* running the VSA software?

Thanks
Sbishop

Re: Purchasing P4000 VSA software

Steven Clementi — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:15:41 GMT

VSA is simply a virtualized Operating System.

In this case, SAN/iQ.

the "VSA" doesn't run on a P4300... it runs as a virtual machine on top of a hypervisor.

SAN/iQ runs on physical hardware.

Steven

Re: Purchasing P4000 VSA software

Olvi_1 — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:14:17 GMT

Well you could install ESXi to them and then run VSA on top of that. Few VSA licenses costs about same as P4300 starter kit so it is pretty pointless. Also you would loose on performance.

-Olvi

Re: Purchasing P4000 VSA software

Paul Hutchings — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:33:42 GMT

Why not download ESXi and the VSA software and give it a try?

You'll get all the features for 30 days.

We have a P4500 G2 virtualisation SAN which comes with 10x VSA licenses which we intend to use some of as a DR/backup cluster.