John Stoffel wrote: > 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 >
We're almost assuredly going to do the same in the near term. The benchmark results are outstanding and the price is good. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
