We are a SMB looking to bring on a second VMWare server. Currently our primary server is running local VMDK images. Assuming we have two nicely sized machines (dual quad xeons, 16gb ram), and abuot 6-10 instances to run supporting 50 users -- what sort of SAN should I look at?
EMC Clariion/Equalogic was ~30k for 4tb raw. Is there a decent benchmark that might help me decide if we need a 30k 2tb (raided) sana, or if there are lower end systems that are more value minded for a SMB?
It looks like vReplicator would allow for VMDK replication -- not true HA or vMotion, but with local storage.
