Happy holidays and 2015!
Curious, where are folks planning to migrate their storage spending to in the new year? Here we have new agreements with several cloud vendors - "unlimited cloud storage" - so mgmt's expectation is we somehow stop buying netapp and move to cloud storage. I've had very mixed performance (throughput drops off drastically) and reliability results with initial tests mounting cloud datastores (using rsync to archive server data - anyone had better results?)
Given our VMware centric workloads, I'd be leaning towards investing in local, 10G connected server storage with an eye towards VSAN
Are there other vendors with a compelling story (SSD/cache) you are considering to migrate to?
We are on latest vmware 5.5, ontap 7.1.2 and Dell 620/720 vmware clusters.
thanks for any feedback, tips!