Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy

2015-04-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:37:25 -0400 Allen slackwarew...@comcast.net wrote: You could also try contacting iX directly. If your company likes proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the people

Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy

2015-04-06 Thread Allen
You could also try contacting iX directly. If your company likes proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the people actually using it... Hahaha! I'm sorry to waste peoples tome with basically a giggle,

Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy

2015-04-01 Thread Kat Dawson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 09:53:05AM +0100, k...@3msg.es wrote: I wonder if anyone has any user stories or blog posts etc, that they could share, that would help provide some corroborating evidence for the suitability of FreeBSD for this use. Thanks for all who responded on and off list. I

Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy

2015-03-31 Thread David Chisnall
On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:36, Kevin Zheng kevinz5...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/30/2015 03:53, k...@3msg.es wrote: I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage implementation. The actual implementation is quite small

Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy

2015-03-30 Thread Kevin Zheng
Hi Kat, I'm glad you (and your enterprise) are looking at FreeBSD! On 03/30/2015 03:53, k...@3msg.es wrote: I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage implementation. The actual implementation is quite small

Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy

2015-03-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, another attempt would be to promote ZFS and use FreeBSD as the vehicle to bring ZFS into the game for a low price. The alternative would be Sun/Oracle with a nice price tag. Erich On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:53:05 +0100 k...@3msg.es wrote: Hi, I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to