[BBLISA] Sun vs Netapp

[Edward Ned Harvey]

Has anyone here actually used *both* the sun ZFS snapshotting, and netapp
snapshotting?

Because I know I've used Linux snapshotting, and it's not even remotely the
same calibre as netapp snapshotting.


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org 
> [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Leif Bergman
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:02 PM
> To: Jeff Wasilko
> Cc: Arthur Gaer; bblisa at bblisa.org; Scott Ehrlich; Rudie, Tony
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?
> 
> 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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