Buy SAN/NAS device for the practice of the VCP

In addition to having EDIT - two servers probably the same physical (or at least two computers that are on the compatibility list), I was thinking of buying some kind of NAS or SAN device, something like a model QNAP TS - 2xx or 4xx - TS.

Yet, I see that some people have used a laptop computer with a virtual machine running vCenter and another running virtualized iSCSI solution - like Starwind.

Is this fair?

Other than gaining practical experience with the device QNAP himself, what advantage would it have compared to just using something like Starwind?

Cost is a factor too, and I see a QNAP device, even without that two-disc (purchased separately) is going to be at least $4-500.

There are a number of free options (as far as the software is concerned at least) at your disposal.

Openfiler 2.3 (www.openfiler.com) offers a solution for iSCSI and NFS and allows to set up a regime based on the hardware and software based raid.

FreeNAS (www.freenas.org) are another provider that offers a solution that allows you to use iSCSI or NFS to provide storage to vSphere.

Initiator, Windows iSCSI server, then that is not really free, as long as you have a Technet subscription, you can use a dedicated server with iSCSI storage are entrusted to him.

Nexentastor Community Edition (http://bit.ly/9RPsiG) is another solution based on ZFS RAID.

Nick weavers UBER VSA (as already mentioned).

The IX4 - 200 d is an Iomega offering iSCSI, NFS and Jumbo frames.

I don't know too much about the performance of all of this for the moment, but I am currently doing some Iometer test risk the IX4 and Openfiler (NFS and iSCSI).

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