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Surprisingly, Iomega can provide VMware certified low cost shared storage. I’ve heard mixed reports about actual performance, but none the less the filers provide cost effective options for VMware labs or small virtual environments.

The image to the right shows recent pricing on Amazon.com.

Fellow GestaltIT.com author and Microsoft Storage MVP Stephen Foskett has a great post with positive things to say on the Iomega models.

Iomega Grows Up and Moves Out of the House – Stephen Foskett

“…it was a surprise to find that the ix4-200r is certified compatible with ESX using both iSCSI and NFS right out of the gate. This is the only inexpensive storage system to wear a VMware badge, and this alone will likely make it a fixture in small offices and VMware labs. The desktop StorCenter ix4-100 and StorCenter ix2 are already widely used in these environments even without iSCSI, after all. The ix4-200r provides a complete SAN-in-a-box, supporting multiple NAS and iSCSI shares with dynamic allocation of the internal RAID-5 protected storage.”

Here is a screen shot from the on line VMware HCL showing the certified Iomega models.

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