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[cooldude919]

Our company is looking at several different SAN options including nexsan, dell, equallogic, stonefly, and netapp. I am looking into the network side of things. We will have 2 sans (1 in 1 office, 1 in the other, with replication inbetween) with only 2 hosts on each, so we are looking at directly connecting the servers to the san, meaning no switch needed.

The stonefly uses SFP+. From what i can tell by doing research online, the SFP+ Twinax cable has built in crossover. Meaning i would just need to get a sfp+ pci-e card for the servers and the twinax cables and i would be good to go. Does this sound right?

[RackPoint-Morgan]

I've connected machines directly to san appliances (EMC ax100's) via SFP's and fiber and have had no issues, not sure if that helps but there ya go.

[Visbits]

If you can afford a netapp solution its an absolute no brainer. Give them a call and tell them the requirements, bar none best investment we've ever made. We even sell a few shelfs off to another client at the same data center.