Enterprise Virtualization Upgrade

So we finally.. and I do mean FINALLY got approval for one of our major projects this year.
Dum, dum DUUUMM,  creating a real, live, full-reaching virtualization structure.

Up til now in our main site we've cobbled together a vast array of VM provider setups.. XenServer (Before Citrix bought them out), Hyper-V (2008 flavor) and a few free ESXi hypervisors.  Since we have the dough dedicated for it now.. my plan is:

Replace all existing Hypervisors
'Upgrade' to a pay-for ESXi setup with support options
Introduce an actual SAN to the environment

The hypervisor hardware I'm looking at is HP Proliant DL360p gen8's.. a trio for the main site and a pair for my site.  The reasons will come shortly..
Anyway the Proliants will have:
      2 x Xeon E5-2643V2 cpus
      64gb PC3-14900E
      Intel 4-port gigabit nic
      Sandisk Extreme Class10/UHS Class 1 SDHC 32gb
      2 x 300gb SAS (Storing VM templates and ISOs)

Now for mass-storage.. we've decided on a Netapp FAS2552 with 24 x 1.2TB internal drives and a shelf with 12 x 600gb drives for roughly 14TB of usable storage.  It'll come with all the licenses netapp has to offer.. Snap Mirror being the primary focus.  Not only will this filer replace our aging file servers, but it'll store the VM data as well as (later on) replicated data from the other site.. my site :)


More to come..