With the public price for cloud storage, it's a no-go for the bulk of our data. We're looking into it for some small projects where it makes sense, but the majority of our production is more cheaply stored on our own infrastructure. As for VMWare, we're testing VSAN, but it's still really new and that's a risk.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Fletcher Cocquyt fcocquyt@stanford.edu wrote:

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!

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