Hi all,
Has anyone done a migration from a mostly NFS based Netapp setup to
one with the new Sun ZFS solution on the 7x00 series arrays? We're
thinking about doing this at $WORK due to the *large* cost savings.
We're looking at around 200Tb of disk spread across four to five
sites, with reliability and performance the two main drivers.
We do have some iSCSI and some CIFS volumes, but not large numbers,
mostly we're NFS for compute clusters, home dirs, etc. We generally
just export one *large* NFS mount point at each site for all data. It
makes life simpler so we don't have to shuffle data/volumes around.
Pros:
- Money
- no more 16Tb volume/aggregate limit, volumes can be insanely
big. Or flexibly depending on your viewpoint.
- multiple levels of ZFS volumes to help segregate data
chunks, which still allowing me ability to resize volumes
dynamically on the fly.
Cons:
- no per-user/qtree/volume quotas reports
- Unknown reliability of Sun solution
- Unknown performance of volume replication across WAN (NetApp
SnapVault sucks across WAN, known Con :-)
- NDMP support not tested with CommVault for backups.
We do have a couple of NetApp clusters, but the boxes are so reliable,
it's not a big deal to NOT have them with Sun ZFS setup.
I guess I really just need to download the Sun Storage Simulator and
just play with it and see how it works.
Thanks for any feedback.
John
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