>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> writes:
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Ryan Pugatch >> >> CommVault is currently my top option. They do dedupe, replication and I >> can put it all on cheap arrays. It is pretty expensive though. Edward> I know I'm a broken record. ZFS does all that. Yeah, it really is an interesting technology. Edward> I run Solaris 10 on Dell with ZFS. But if you want dedup, Edward> you'd have to use a later version, which might not have the Edward> awesomest stability on non-sun hardware, in which case, you'd Edward> probably have to consider the sun/oracle hardware to get Edward> adequate support & stability. Edward> ZFS dedup should be stable enough on non-sun hardware, about 6 Edward> months from now. Edward> It's also worth mention that ZFS dedup does not apply Edward> in-transit (which means it does not apply when written to Edward> tape.) It only applies when it's received into a filesystem. I'm still not sure how Oracle is going to handle the Sun buyout, so far they seem to be screwing things up left right and center, but that's just me. I agree that ZFS might be the solution though. John _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
