on 3/11/09 6:44 PM, Edward Harvey said: > .. Create a site dedicated to instruction of how to set up alternate > systems (such as solaris ZFS, volume shadow copy, etc) to provide the same > functionality we are currently getting from netapp.
Sun's "Amber Road" Unified Storage Solution systems sound like they are exactly what you want. > o Network storage with snapshots or volume shadow copy > > o Dual parity > > o Expand your filer on the fly > > o Snapshot to some other hardware across a network > > o Gracefully integrate NFS with CIFS, supporting NIS, LDAP, Active > Directory, Kerberos ZFS will do all of this, but it will be more of a pain to administer if you use it raw on OpenSolaris. Do yourself a favour and look at the Unified Storage Solution systems that make it much, much easier to administer these boxes -- easier than anything NetApp has ever produced. See <http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/> for more info. Note that they have a free VMWare player simulator that you can test with, so that you can see for yourself what it's like to administer these things -- just don't depend on it for benchmarking, because the VMWare simulator running on your laptop won't run any faster than your laptop is capable of running. If you take an entry-level 7410 "head" and fully populate the attached twelve J4400 JBOD shelves with as many 1TB SATA-II drives as you can get, you can get the total price per raw TB (rTB) down to $1386.68, retail. If you can get educational discounts (~20%), that comes down to $1109.35/rTB. If you can get Sun Matching Grant pricing, that comes down to $693.34/rTB. Can you tell that I'm in the middle of doing a big spreadsheet to explore our options? -- 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/
