What are you planning on serving up on them? I.e.: what types of applications, how many instances, how much usable are you needing (will help with spindle count, etc)?
I've implemented many of these in varying environments, all went very well to serve the need. My main beef with the 2020 is port count (FC and eth), but ygwypf - this is an entry level storage appliance. Port count comes back again with the 2050 when clustered - plan on losing a partner port for each active port on each node - the 2050 has 3 PCI(*) expansion slots when clustered.
Since you're going SAS, remember that storage expansion for both these systems is going to be either FC or ATA disk - so you will be creating NEW aggregates for expansion any plans outside of the storage you buy now. NetApp has proposed mixing SAS and FC together in same aggregates, this year I believe.
Overall these are very sweet systems and do extremely well, but again it depends on what you plan them for. Let me know if further questions.
Ps: seems you're looking at 4 total systems...thoughts on consolidating and buying a bigger system to do it all, with a lower end unit (2020) as backup/DR? That way you may spend a little less on H/W, but can afford Snapmirror/vault and the varying other licenses you'd need to make it all happen?
Best regards, Kevin Parker
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Robert K. Borowicz Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:48 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: FAS2000 Series
Anybody have a 2000 series filer they care to comment on for me? (privately please) I'm considering my next purchase and these certainly fit a nice price point for me.
I'm looking at quotes for a 2020 with 12 300 Gig SAS drives, a 2050 with 12 drives and a dual controller 2050 with 20 300 Gig SAS drives.
TIA
-Robert