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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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. > _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
