Economics for one. We run a number of testing environments which mimic the production one. But we don't want to spend $750,000 on EMC storage each time when something costing $200,000 will do the job we need.
At the moment we have over 100TB on four SE6140s and we're very happy with the solution. ZFS is saving a lot of money for us because it enables solutions that weren't viable before. > Hang on, you tell me I can pop in Solaris 10, slap in ZFS ... reduce > most of my storage footprint to JBOD's ... (and all of this on a > little old AMD system.).. You must be joking! > > Why would I consider a new solution that is safe, fast enough, stable > .. easier to manage and lots cheaper? (That's my fanboy hat, please > excuse) > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
