Dear ZFS and OpenSolaris people : I recently upgraded a large NFS server upwards from Solaris 8. This is a production manufacturing facility with football field sized factory floors and 25 tonne steel products. Many on-site engineers on AIX and CATIA as well as Solaris users and Windows and everything you can shake a stick at.
Everything in this place must rest in central storage that is bulletproof and fast. The NFS server is like the companies vault for its valuables and its future. After serious consideration looking at a number of products I can say that *nothing* comes close to the value of ZFS and Solaris. Nothing comes close to the speed either. With instant quota control, like turning a dial, we were able to deliver terabytes of storage to all users but only expose the as much or as little as we want. On the fly. That impressed everyone involved. I received this yesterday. :: Verbatim eMail Dennis: I have all the data transferred over and reconfigured an AIX machine for testing tomorrow. I was surprised that nobody came to me and noticed there was 200 Gig of disk space available. Or that performance was much faster. Our spec's showed 5x perfomance increase. I also did a seat of the pants test ... Much faster as well. Windows drive mappings were almost instant upon login. Large CAD models and assembles came up in seconds compared to minutes ... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
