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