https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/p2000-experience-with-iscsi/m-p/5315925#M44868 <P>Hello !</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>We want to buy a p2000 as a storagesystem for a small esx-cluster, but are not sure which controller to choose.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>iSCSI (1 GB) would be the best financialwise - but I've heard from 2 guys that the performance is poor. They recommend to use FC.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>As I don't have any experience with this system - what do you suggest?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>We want to start with 2 esx-hosts (DL380G7 2xhexacore) with up to 30 vms (standard W2K8 with 4 GB ram, no special applications). And we want to use BackupExec with avvi as the backupsolution - attached into the san - not via the vm's.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Any recommendations ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thx in advance</P><P>Olaf</P> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:56:35 GMT Olaf Pelzer 2011-08-29T18:56:35Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/p2000-experience-with-iscsi/m-p/5315925#M44868 <P>Hello !</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>We want to buy a p2000 as a storagesystem for a small esx-cluster, but are not sure which controller to choose.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>iSCSI (1 GB) would be the best financialwise - but I've heard from 2 guys that the performance is poor. They recommend to use FC.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>As I don't have any experience with this system - what do you suggest?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>We want to start with 2 esx-hosts (DL380G7 2xhexacore) with up to 30 vms (standard W2K8 with 4 GB ram, no special applications). And we want to use BackupExec with avvi as the backupsolution - attached into the san - not via the vm's.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Any recommendations ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thx in advance</P><P>Olaf</P> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:56:35 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/p2000-experience-with-iscsi/m-p/5315925#M44868 Olaf Pelzer 2011-08-29T18:56:35Z