Moving to HP MSA1000 SAN

Hello all,

I'm currently investigating a MSA 1000 SAN (including a DL360 server)
solution for my company. Initially, the SAN will be the storage for a
SQL database, that will be running on the DL360, and that has about 25
concurrent users. USER folders will be migrated here also.

I'm planning on migrating our Exchange to 2003 early first quarter and
putting in on a new DL360 and utilizing the SAN for the Exchange
storage. I have three other servers that I would like eventually to
point towards the SAN for their storage also. My question is, how much
is too much? Will there be performance issues? Besides the actual
physical storage requirements, how much I/O can the MSA1000 handle
before performance starts to degrade?

There are approximately 100 total users on our network.

Is there any one with some practical experience with this?

Thanks!
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Steve
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