Can you provide the spec's or models of the netapp and sun box that you were/are using so we can get a better idea on the comparison? Also, how many clients are accessing it?
Thanks. rgt On 03/03/2010 10:33 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > We recently switched (6 months ago) from NetApp to Sun & ZFS. The > performance is so much better now, it was totally obvious to all the admins > and all the users. We have more power, more flexibility, more portability. > Administration is dramatically easier and more flexible, meaning we can > install any monitoring tool we want, or any command line thing we want, > because it's a normal OS that can build and run apps. Every software > license is already included, no need to a-la-carte things like snapshots and > backups and NFS and CIFS. The cost of this system was many thousand less > than the equivalent Netapp system. I will never go back. > > Plus, Netapp screwed us on the warranty service while that machine was in > production, although I understand most people don't have that bad experience > from NetApp support, it left a very bad taste in my mouth, and many foul > words for NetApp came from me. It took them about a month to correct their > records and reinstate our service contract. In the end they apologized to > me and offered me a free disk, which I turned down and said the only thing I > care about is knowing this will never, ever happen again. > > Local retailers that I've purchased from are Corporate Technologies, and > Continental Resources. I would happily recommend them both. They've both > been good for us. I think they both retail NetApp, and Sun/Oracle. > > Also, if you're adventurous, you can do this all with Solaris on a Dell. > The cost is much lower than any of the Netapp or Sun alternatives, but it's > not nearly as well supported. You have to do crazy things like boot from > the Solaris CD on the internal optical drive, while there's a USB optical > drive attached, with a special driver in it to enable the PERC, and then > swap the CD from the internal drive to the USB drive and continue with the > OS installation. It is officially supported and this is officially the > solution, which I learned by calling Dell support. But my point is, it's > obvious that Solaris was rather an afterthought in the PowerEdge design, and > the end result is somewhat kludgey. But since I know all the little booby > traps, this is likely what I will use in the future. > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Paul Beltrani >> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 6:09 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [BBLISA] Recommendation for NAS appliance? >> >> We're looking for a basic, enterprise class appliance to serve 15TB to >> 30TB of mission critical storage via NFS. We're considering the >> offerings from NetApp and EMC but they're much more than we need. For >> example, we don't need features like mirroring or remote replication. >> >> Would anyone care to recommend a vendor or appliance they're happy >> with? >> >> - Paul Beltrani >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bblisa mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
