Neil Neely wrote: > In addition to the questions you were asking I have one other angle I'm > curious about: Anyone have insight on the admin overhead differences > between the two solutions? The NetApp system is pretty simple and > volume management doesn't take long to train junior admins on - and > their online documentation always tells us how to do whatever we need > with it. How is this for the Sun ZFS solution? Especially if you were > a shop with no meaningful Solaris experience.
For the 7x00 series, it's all webUI. You can see parts of that on their website. You can also download a VMware image that you can run on your own machine as a "storage simulator", so that you can see for yourself what it looks like. > Just trying to feel out if there are hidden operational costs in this > equation that are relevant to consider. How would you feel about doing all your system admin work exclusively through webmin? I get the feeling it's not significantly different from that. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bigsbytracks _______________________________________________ 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/
