[BBLISA] Fileserver opinion

[Peter Galvin]

Note that the Sun 7000 ZFS appliance does phone home, but as you say
Solaris+ZFS does not have any phone home abilities...

--Peter


On 8/13/10 11:40 AM, "John Orthoefer" <jco at direwolf.com> wrote:

> ZFS doesn't support Phone home.  So when the filer is having an issue a
> replacement part and a service tech show up and replace it for you.
> 
> If you have monitoring infrastructure in place that that you know a failing
> disk will be caught and fixed before it's an issue, great.  But I've seen it
> before, a RAID unit silently replaces a failed disk with a hot spare, then a
> second disk fails and it runs in degraded mode, and then a 3rd disk fails....
> oops...oh hey it's been complaining for 6 months and no one did anything about
> it.
> 
> Right now I don't run a Netapp, they aren't right for ALL places and all
> things (I'm not that big of a fanboy.)  Nor do I work for them.   But I've had
> a lot of success with them.
> 
> ZFS I'm also a fan of... But once again if you are willing to spend manpower
> money to build something you can, and monitor and maintain it.  But I really
> believe the TCO of a Netapp is lower than a homebrew solution.
> 
> johno
> 
> On Aug 13, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> 
>>> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
>>> Behalf Of John Orthoefer
>>> 
>>> the 1TB SATA hard drive that you get from
>>> NewEgg and xTB of disk storage you get from Netapp are NOT comparable.
>> 
>> I'll agree that "you get what you pay for."
>> 
>> But I'll say this:  Scrap netapp, and go with ZFS.  I did this about a year
>> ago, and I am SOOOO happy I did.  ZFS does everything and more than netapp.
>> I can run it on commodity Dell (or whatever blackbox) hardware.  I can build
>> a cheap "backup" server which is regularly instantly(ish) snapshotted from
>> the primary server, and all of it is migrated and stored offsite.
>> 
>> Seriously, the features and performance of ZFS over Netapp or EXT3/4 are
>> hands-down just plain superior and awesome.
>> 
> 
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