[BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

[Leif Bergman]

Another solution you might want to consider is to use solaris.  The
new ZFS filesystem supports snapshots and lots of other neat things.

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/faq/

You could buy a big sun box like:

http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/

though sun can be a pain to deal with.

Or you could piece together your own solution from commodity hardware.

Using it as a NFS server works really well, but if you need iSCSI, I
can't speak to it.

Leif

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:45:18PM -0400, Jeff Wasilko wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:36:21PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> > Let me clarify -
> > 
> > I'm wondering what companies, other than Network Appliance, also 
> > incorporate snapshot capability?   Maybe they all do, and use different 
> > wording, or some implementations are better/preferred than others?
> 
> The Engenio-based RAID arrays can do volume snapshots, but that's
> a different thing than filesystem snapthots.
> 
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