HA for my project

Good day everyone!
Not sure if someone will help me here - I`ve asked on other forums, and still didn`t get an answear.
I`ve got such issue:
My system is two servers with ESX. We are running SQL data base and Exchange Continuous cluster replication. Our storage capacity is above 100TB. Also we`re planning to use tapes for backup. There are 70 clients in the network. What iSCSI target solution will you suggest for my system? It would be great if it will support HA.

 

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/

There are probably others.

 

Yes, there are others. For example FreeNAS, which falling as often as rain, there is Openfiler, that is better than FreeNAS, but it doesn't mean that it is good, there is Datacore, wich usability can be compared with driving plane by blindman, etc. Sorry in case of what - that is my rock opinion.

 

Completely agree Per!
Tore, I think that if you don`t want to spend too much money for hardware solution you must to listen what elbiatcho1 says.
Regards!

 

Thanks you all for all of your responses! They all were very helpful. elbiatcho1, +1 for StarWind!

 

100 TBs with only 70 clients? Sheesh.

Something besides backing up to tape, you may want to look into some form of data deduplication. We use Datadomain.

Also, ESX has HA built in, if you paid for it. Also, ESX 4.0 has Fault Tolerance. So, with both of these, this should help in your HA solution.