We looked at the 1500 but seemed to be lots of people saying more than 2 hosts would probably overwork the controller. So low cost yes

I did an MSA1500 implementation a couple of months back, and I don’t recommend them for a resilient back end storage anyway, vmware only supports single controller arrays see the esx3.5 I/O guide.

A controller swap and rescan is required if the active controller fails (the one on the right hand side) and a reboot of all the VM’s.

Not used datacore before so might take a look at this, cheers.

Hi Alan

Thanks for this useful information. It’s great to get real-world feedback on any such gotcha’s or short-comings – this will certainly help others.

Appreciated.

Cheers,

Si

A controller swap and rescan is required if the active controller fails (the one on the right hand side) and a reboot of all the VM’s.

Not used datacore before so might take a look at this, cheers.