R730 2014 edition, PowerVault to use

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Hi There, Please advise a current PowerVault model to use on our current server, out of storage space. Thanks

Origin3k · Accepted Answer

Hello,

at first i would like to say that "Powervault" is some kind of category and contains from Tape, Storage Expansion and SAN Storage a lot of different solutions.

Speaking of disk and when having no more free disk slots within your PowerEdge R730 i see 2 choices

1. A JBOD like MD14x0 together with a H830 RAID Card (comes with external Ports).

2. A SAN like ME4012/24 together with a 12G Dual Port SAS HBA(no raid, just internal Ports and passtrough) It is the ME4 which do the RAID and all other magic

If you use VMware vSphere take a look the HCL first what is supportet and what not. For sure ME4 is supportet.

The MD1400+H830 we have for our Backup Servers which than have multiple MD1400 attached in a chain to a single Perc H830.

Take a look to https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/dell-raid-controllers?c=us&l=en&s=bsd and click the "external" tab.

Regards,
Joerg

tapelibraryfixer · Answer

How much space do you need?

ChrisBooyens · Answer

About 4 to 8TB. We are thinking of moving the VM's onto a PowerVault.

tapelibraryfixer · Answer

i suppose it comes down to what you want to spend add disks to the R730 if you can, or spend alot more on a disk array.

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