Hello,
We are currently running 6 esxi hosts, hosting ~20 VMs. Our esxi hosts are very under provisioned... We are looking to migrate to Proxmox(Broadcom shenanigans...), and looking for pointers on SANs that work well with Proxmox for shared storage(VMs hosted on SAN). We're a small business(< 50 employees) so cost is our biggest concern. We would be looking to buy a used SAN although we are required to comply with NIST 800-171 so must have a SAN that we can get security updates on(hoping to find a SAN that is 1-2 generations old so costs are lower but support is still available for several years).
An IT consultant suggested we look at Dell EMC Unity, but from reading through reddit I'm getting the feeling most people don't recommend a Dell EMC Unity SAN with Proxmox... Are there any product lines or features I should be looking for to try to keep costs down on a SAN that works well with Proxmox?
Please keep in mind I have very very little experience with Proxmox and I have no experience with SANs, so if there is a better way to get the benefits of a SAN those recommendations would be greatly appreciated. If this post is way to vague please let me know what I need to read up on to better educate myself so I can pose a better question...
We are currently running 6 esxi hosts, hosting ~20 VMs. Our esxi hosts are very under provisioned... We are looking to migrate to Proxmox(Broadcom shenanigans...), and looking for pointers on SANs that work well with Proxmox for shared storage(VMs hosted on SAN). We're a small business(< 50 employees) so cost is our biggest concern. We would be looking to buy a used SAN although we are required to comply with NIST 800-171 so must have a SAN that we can get security updates on(hoping to find a SAN that is 1-2 generations old so costs are lower but support is still available for several years).
An IT consultant suggested we look at Dell EMC Unity, but from reading through reddit I'm getting the feeling most people don't recommend a Dell EMC Unity SAN with Proxmox... Are there any product lines or features I should be looking for to try to keep costs down on a SAN that works well with Proxmox?
Please keep in mind I have very very little experience with Proxmox and I have no experience with SANs, so if there is a better way to get the benefits of a SAN those recommendations would be greatly appreciated. If this post is way to vague please let me know what I need to read up on to better educate myself so I can pose a better question...
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