Not a fair fight!
Take any enterprise storage system from 3 years ago, and you can find a dozen better alternatives in 2016, even from EMC. Come on!
Today, for VMware loads you can even go without a storage, get any performance you like, and have stretched metropolitan high availability as a welcome bonus (i.e. all flash VSAN).
But 3 years ago? In comparison, we where in the stone age!
I don't love spinning rust, but you are not allowed to spit on it today, just because we have a viable flash option: it' not fair, and almost disrespectful.
Just plan a quick transition to anything current, thank the old system for the high availability (not so much for the performance), and learn yet another lesson useful for the next big wave.
Just my 2 eurocents...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
