[BBLISA] Re: storevault / netapp

[seph]

"Edward Ned Harvey" <bblisa2 at nedharvey.com> writes:

> I think that Data ONTAP is, or was, a software product available to
> purchase, if you could get it to run on some other hardware.  I think that
> storevault as a company made their business by building sata systems,
> cheaper than the regular netapp products, and out-compete netapp at their
> own game, in the SMB market.  So netapp boughtout storevault.

That is not my understanding. I'm curious if you have anything to
support that. I believe that netapp came out with storevault to try to
capture the SMB section of the market, as they tried to do with the f87.

> The things that attract me to this product are - low cost (sata disks, 12
> slots) - snapshotting - dual parity - expand on the fly.  I think you can
> get snapshotting from sun, but can you do dualparity or expand on the fly?

I'm fairly sure that zfs supports all of that. Though zfs machines are
more roll-your-own than storevault.

seph