Hi all,
I am due to start a new job in the next fortnight which will (potentially) involve deploying vSphere in a totally new environment. The short story is that these guys are running a decent-sized LAMP-backed website, and currently outsource all of their production infrastructure and rent servers from a third party. As a result, their hosting costs are huge and they're looking to reduce the TCO by bringing things in-house.
I don't currently have any figures or metrics, but I'm starting to formulate a plan to suggest vSphere as a virtualisation platform. My main headache at the moment is storage. Given that I'm going to be starting from scratch (and to a certain extent I'll have a blank cheque, within reason), what are people's thoughts on 10GbE iSCSI vs 16Gb FC storage? Not necessarily "which is faster" as I don't want this to turn into a fan-boy fight, but "which is more appropriate for our scenario".
I'm pretty sure that we won't be hammering the storage too badly - however I don't want to suggest one solution, get the management buy-in only to find that it's not the right solution.
Opinions from anyone who has run a large LAMP stack on vSphere would be amazing.
Cheers,
Craig