Rob Cherry wrote: > Sun seem to be pretty serious with their 7000 series products. I have > one of their 7110s and it is.... interesting. On the plus side the > dashboard utilizing dtrace to show you analytics of performance is > amazing. The use of zfs helps me sleep well at night. If I had the > spare cash to ramp up to the redundant head models which allow HDD > choice, their use of flash SSDs for cache is a very cool approach and > technically much better thought out than a Tier 0 of pure flash SSDs > that are no use to the other tiers of storage - they can front 1Tb > SATA drives with a few wicked fast SSDs and outperform a shelf of 15k > RPM drives for example. > > On the downside, I cant seem to get the LDAP (or NIS) to Active > Directory identity mapping to work such that cross windows/unix share > acls are identical. Sun are young in the NAS space (at least on the > CIFS side) and it shows. However, for pure NFS or pure CIFS shares > they are probably worth adding to the evaluation list.... > yeah, we've had an open support case on this with Sun for months. We've been trying to put our 7200 series in production (active/passive with replication) but are stymied by some identity mapping issues for CIFS. It's not working yet for us (for some people it does, but so far we're stuck)
design and architecture - good speed - zoom debugging and analyzing capability - top tier operationals - not yet fully there particularly with respect to CIFS integration. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
