![]() ![]() Do you need to replace a switch or simply reduce your complexity and costs by not having a switch(s)? Or, is your current or possible candidate storage system introducing complexity by not being able to do what you need or want it to do, if so, step back and look at other options. This also means stepping back and looking at if you need to eliminate your SAN or want to eliminate it or if others want you to eliminate it which should be tied to what are the pro's, con's of your current SAN. However step back and ask yourself if that removes the complexity on one side while increasing or moving the complexity elsewhere. Since you are using VMware ESXi on your hosts, that could mean migrating to VSAN (which does not support FC today), or some other software such as Starwind among others that can use internal DAS. switched or switch-less) using iSCSI, SAS, FC or FCoE, you would need to get some storage sharing software that would use internal dedicated (or possibly shared) direct attached storage. ![]() We are looking at keeping them at the same period for the servers (5 years was the original if you are not going to go the external SAN shared storage (e.g. We have Brocade 815 (a pair per server) so that's 8 Gbps. Urischan not going the SAN route, what will you recommend? ![]()
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