[10:42] <Da77o0oM> any girl in Charlotte ?
[18:12] <durrell> Veloce06: You've inspired me..I'm trying to build a SAN now lol
[18:13] <Veloce06> durrell: it's not too difficult using OpenFiler. The hardest part is finding hardware that will support multiple SATA drives and good drives
[18:14] <Veloce06> One of the things I did was make sure you have either a good Gigabyte switch to VLAN the SAN traffic, or provide a completely different Gigabyte network for your SAN.
[18:16] <Veloce06> durrell: let me know if you have any questions. I'll at least try to answer to the best of my ability. Good luck on the SAN build.
[18:16] <durrell> Well we have two Compellent SANs
[18:16] <durrell> I'm just doing this for fun
[18:17] <durrell> I'm bored and have the hardware haha
[18:17] <Veloce06> that's the best part, doing it for fun
[18:17] <Veloce06> No stress that way, so any problems become a learning experience without the headache
[18:18] <durrell> Yup that's the plan :)
[18:19] <durrell> I am probably going to try to hook it up to ESXi just for fun too
[18:19] <durrell> This is why I love my job..I'd be doing this stuff at home anyway haha
[18:21] <Veloce06> let me know if you need some links to some web sites with helps on connecting ESXi to OpenFiler. I definitely bookmarked those pages.
[18:41] <BugeyeD> durrell: what operating systems do you have connected to your compellent? and what type of connections? we're shopping now, and it's between compellent and emc (we have emc now, but are thinking about dumping them).
[18:42] <BugeyeD> we have a mixed bag - solaris, linux, bsd, and a few windows boxes. we're an oracle shop, with oracle on suse linux. all fibre-channel, with nas being delivered via software instead of the san itself.
[18:49] <BugeyeD> durrell: i see, you are running esx w/iscsi and fibre.
[18:59] <durrell> BugeyeD: Yep
[19:00] <durrell> ESX 4.1 at the moment..prepping to move to ESXi 4.1 with VMware's announcement last week that they are ditching ESX
[19:41] <BugeyeD> i have a dozen or so 4.0 boxes in several clusters; 4.1 presented issues when backed by oracle database, and those issues weren't resolved until about a month ago.
[19:41] <BugeyeD> we've known for awhile that we'd already seen the last of esx. i still haven't messed with esxi yet.
[19:52] <durrell> BugeyeD: You're a lot larger than us..we have 3 4.1 boxes running about 20 servers
[19:52] <durrell> 4.1 has been great for us, though
[19:56] <BugeyeD> yeah, we have 300+ guests, not including the vdi stuff
[20:02] <durrell> Ahh we are strongly considering getting into some VDI stuff