In the message dated: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:04:37 CST,
The pithy ruminations from Brad Knowles on
<Re: [lopsa-tech] Netapp to ZFS migration experience?> were:
=> Neil Neely wrote:
=>
[SNIP!]
=>
=> 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.
=>
I just returned (about 45 minutes ago) from the local Sun dog'n'pony show
about the 7x00 series.
They look nice, and the primary access is via the webgui. I think that there is
a CLI available, but it's not a shell at the OS level, if I understand it
correctly.
However, one feature that they mentioned is that the interface is scriptable
via python. The example that was given was scripting periodic snapshots at time
intervals that are not available via the GUI. Sounds cool...
Mark
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