On Fri, April 8, 2011 10:06, Darren J Moffat wrote: >> They may be storage appliances, but the user can not put their own >> software on them. This limits the appliance to only the features that >> Oracle decides to put on it. > > Isn't that the very definition of an Appliance ?
Yes, but the OP wasn't looking for an appliance, he were looking for a (general) server that could hold lots of disks. The X4540 was well-designed and suited their need for storage and CPU (as it did Greenplum as well); it was fairly unique as a design. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
