Until recently, I’ve viewed VSAs (virtual storage appliances) as creatures of the lab, where I’m constantly building, and tearing down, configurations to test one product or another. I’ve saved many hours, and countless thousands of dollars, by spinning up as many as a dozen virtual iSCSI disk arrays when the need has arisen. I’ve started taking them more seriously as I plan my doctor friend’s upgrade from a Windows 2003 infrastructure to the promised land of virtual servers.
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