On Apr 8, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Evaldas Auryla <evaldas.aur...@edqm.eu> wrote:
> On 04/ 8/11 01:14 PM, Ian Collins wrote: >>> You have built-in storage failover with an AR cluster; >>> and they do NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, HTTP and WebDav >>> out of the box. >>> >>> And you have fairly unlimited options for application servers, >>> once they are decoupled from the storage servers. >>> >>> It doesn't seem like much of a drawback -- although it >>> may be for some smaller sites. I see AR clusters going in >>> in local high schools and small universities. >>> >> Which is all fine and dandy if you have a green field, or are willing to >> re-architect your systems. We just wanted to add a couple more x4540s! >> > > Hi, same here, it's a sad news that Oracle decided to stop x4540s production > line. Before, ZFS geeks had choice - buy 7000 series if you want quick "out > of the box" storage with nice GUI, or build your own storage with x4540 line, > which by the way has brilliant engineering design, the choice is gone now. Okay, so what is the great advantage of an X4540 versus X86 server plus disk array(s)? Mark _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
