Greetings,
Our provider made a mistake purchasing MSA 1040 DC SAS STRG that doesn’t work on our actual network because it uses SAS when all our network uses ethernet. We are really new in this domain and we have no experience in SAN technologies.
We are facing two choices :
I) Returning back the SAS server to our provider and purchase a new storage server:
1- Is there a simple HP solution to store and manage our files (a server containing a software solution and a storage space). Our needs are very simple, we just need to share the storage space on our server so that our employees can store / retrieve the videos on/from the server.
2- Is there a storage server that can be directly managed from a windows 7 station with an FTP Client? Or, is it possible to manage an HP storage server (using ISCSI 1GB port) from an HP Compaq Elite on which we installed a Windows server 2008 R2 ? I need to mention that we have a Catalyst 2960 switch having 1Gb ports.
II) Keeping the MSA 1040 DC SAS LFF strg :
In this case, how can we connect to SAS server (switch, cables, server and software solution).
Please, help!
Thank you.