Initially, when we fully designed the solution, we chose the capacity and the storage requirements. It also had a competitive price and was easy to manage, so we proposed it to our management. The management then decided that because Dell is easy to deploy and resources are available, it was a good choice. It is also easy to buy Dell storage, and we have had experience with Dell for the last 20 years. So, we chose Dell Storage Resource Manager because Dell is a familiar and trusted product.

It is at this time that we switched to NetApp's OCI. It was somewhat reasonably priced and easy to install with VMs, instead of all the physical hosts that EMC wanted at that time.

We were somewhat happy with OCI and it was less costly.

We only used ECC until I left that particular organization.